I like that Robin Hood analogy! Personally I was just stealing movies because I wanted to watch them but I didn't want to pay for them. But that Robin Hood thing is great, I'm going to use that sometime.
No matter what the "factual" details are, if you're on the same side of a dispute as a dead soldier's family, there's no possible way you can be wrong.
Another feature that Java 6 has doesn't seem to be getting any attention is JSR 269 (Pluggable Annotation Processing). I'm kind of excited to try it out.
The idea with JSR 269 (as I understand it).. you create a few classes that are specifically recognized as annotation processing classes. Run javac as usual. Javac starts out and looks for classes like these. If it finds any, it will run them on your remaining source code files. The logic you define in your annotation processors can access the source code and do pretty much anything with it.
As a very simple example, you could create an annotation @HasGettersAndSetters, and create a corresponding processor that automatically creates get..() and set..() methods for any class that you stick the annotation on.
There are existing libraries out there (Spoon), but the cool part about this is that it's all built-in to javac.
Yeah I have to vote for "unsubstantiated public relations".
Whenever I read any of the SL articles, I always have to wonder, have any of these people actually played the game?
Here is my experience from having tried it a few times:
1) I log in, there's a ton of people sitting around in crazy costumes chatting. Lots of typing sound effects. So far so good.
2) I try to find something cool. It took me a while before I figured out how to use the map, or bring up the list of popular destinations, but I can get that far now. By the way, the GUI moves like molasses. It's painful to use.
3) I warp in to a new area. At first I don't see anything but terrain. Gradually, distant shapes begin to stream in. I try to fly around as things are streaming in, but I keep hitting invisible walls. It takes about a minute of streaming before I can actually see the walls I'm running in to.
4) After about 2 minutes of waiting, the area finishes streaming in. 99% of the time, it's a store. And 90% of the time, it's specifically a clothing store, either selling a) clever t-shirts, or b) sexy female models.
5) Repeat at step 2
SL is great in concept, but right now the execution of that concept just isn't there. And I can forgive some stuff. I can forgive the fact that most of the user-created content is crap. But I can't get past the horribly slow GUI, and the horribly slow streaming of new content. They are show-stoppers for me.
What Golden age? The huge amount of sequals of previous games, and games based on crappy movie, cartoon, book, etc. licenses? Having 25 different '2007' editions of various sports games with very little additions to them does not mean quality.
You're judging the current state of gaming by looking at the worst examples. Yes there's a lot of crap out there right now, but I think there's always going to be crap. Don't focus on the crap.
If you sift through the crap and instead focus on the best examples of gaming, I think the author is right, there's an amazing variety of innovative games out there right now.
Name a single race in the game that would not have this problem. Is there some as-yet-unused zone of level 5 pandaren that I don't know about? Obviously they will be making a new zone for the new race to start in.
And what's to stop them from having the Draenei start in the Outlands somewhere? The server will still have to complete the dark portal event to access all the 60-70 content. A newbie Draenei would only be able to afford the slightest peak of the new content.
And they can always have NPCs provide one-way trips to Azeroth so that the newbie Draenei can level with their friends. Or, maybe they wouldn't. It would be kind of cool to play a race that is temporarily exiled from the rest of the game.
I don't know, I've seen it lots of times and I've never even worked as retail.
There was one occasion where I was at a game store, and some clueless parent was trying to buy GTA3 for her 12 year old because that's the game he asked for. Both me and the guy behind the desk actually spent 5 minutes describing the game and trying to convince her not to get it, but she bought it anyway, explaining that "oh, he knows better"
So yeah. Ratings are great, but they don't do much against stupid parents.
Weird comment about Australia's exchange rate. What does that have to do with Peter Jackson? Can't Uwe Boll just as easily go to Australia to film the movie? Unless he isn't welcome there..
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I agree that it's annoying. But in this case, it's not a sleazy marketing thing to make it easier for you to make an impulse buy. It really is necessary. Free characters start out with a base allowance of Linden dollars, so they need the credit card check to prevent someone from making a ton of throwaway emails/accounts and harvesting the money.
By default, a game based on a movie has to suck.
Get with the times, man. Chronicals of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay already disproved that outdated belief.
Well, as long as we're going to post every single Escapist artile on slashdot, can we talk about their horrible, and almost criminal, abuse of HTML? Watch what happens when you make the window too small (and try scrolling). Watch what happens when you try to select a block of text. PLEASE, STOP THE MADNESS
Here's a method that's practically 100% reliable. You won't lose *any* formatting details. Also, the way I describe is by hand, but I'm pretty sure you could set something up to automate this.
1) Open the document in Word 2) Maximize the window 3) Take a screenshot 4) Upload the screenshot to the web 5) Done!
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God the HTML on this site sucks balls. In IE, it's completely impossible to view the entire article in a browser window that's less than 800 wide.
What the hell is Jibjab? (well okay, that's a rhetorical question, I know what it is now). All those other 9 fads I remember foundly, but it seems like the only reason they put that one on there was to make a good closer. Jibjab hardly seems fad-worthy.
My guildies were having trouble getting past the first room in Blackwing's Lair last night, so my assumption is that Blizz has really come up with something special here.
Heh, is this suppossed to be sarcastic? The reason no one can get anywhere in BWL right now, is because there is a bugged door that isn't opening when it should.
It had a particular fondness for Steely Dan, whose songs always seemed to pop up two or three times in the first hour of play.
I can disprove his theory right there. I listen to my iPod all the time, but mine has NEVER EVER played a Steely Dan song. Not even once. I don't even have any Steely Dan songs. So there, QED.
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Well I'm ready with my "back in my day" and "when I was your age" speeches to deliver to young gamers, how about you guys?
I like that Robin Hood analogy! Personally I was just stealing movies because I wanted to watch them but I didn't want to pay for them. But that Robin Hood thing is great, I'm going to use that sometime.
No matter what the "factual" details are, if you're on the same side of a dispute as a dead soldier's family, there's no possible way you can be wrong.
Another feature that Java 6 has doesn't seem to be getting any attention is JSR 269 (Pluggable Annotation Processing). I'm kind of excited to try it out.
The idea with JSR 269 (as I understand it).. you create a few classes that are specifically recognized as annotation processing classes. Run javac as usual. Javac starts out and looks for classes like these. If it finds any, it will run them on your remaining source code files. The logic you define in your annotation processors can access the source code and do pretty much anything with it.
As a very simple example, you could create an annotation @HasGettersAndSetters, and create a corresponding processor that automatically creates get..() and set..() methods for any class that you stick the annotation on.
There are existing libraries out there (Spoon), but the cool part about this is that it's all built-in to javac.
Yeah I have to vote for "unsubstantiated public relations".
Whenever I read any of the SL articles, I always have to wonder, have any of these people actually played the game?
Here is my experience from having tried it a few times:
1) I log in, there's a ton of people sitting around in crazy costumes chatting. Lots of typing sound effects. So far so good.
2) I try to find something cool. It took me a while before I figured out how to use the map, or bring up the list of popular destinations, but I can get that far now. By the way, the GUI moves like molasses. It's painful to use.
3) I warp in to a new area. At first I don't see anything but terrain. Gradually, distant shapes begin to stream in. I try to fly around as things are streaming in, but I keep hitting invisible walls. It takes about a minute of streaming before I can actually see the walls I'm running in to.
4) After about 2 minutes of waiting, the area finishes streaming in. 99% of the time, it's a store. And 90% of the time, it's specifically a clothing store, either selling a) clever t-shirts, or b) sexy female models.
5) Repeat at step 2
SL is great in concept, but right now the execution of that concept just isn't there. And I can forgive some stuff. I can forgive the fact that most of the user-created content is crap. But I can't get past the horribly slow GUI, and the horribly slow streaming of new content. They are show-stoppers for me.
What Golden age? The huge amount of sequals of previous games, and games based on crappy movie, cartoon, book, etc. licenses? Having 25 different '2007' editions of various sports games with very little additions to them does not mean quality.
You're judging the current state of gaming by looking at the worst examples. Yes there's a lot of crap out there right now, but I think there's always going to be crap. Don't focus on the crap.
If you sift through the crap and instead focus on the best examples of gaming, I think the author is right, there's an amazing variety of innovative games out there right now.
As typical, every class thinks every other class got a better deal,
Warlock here, I don't think that at all! Heh heh heh.
Name a single race in the game that would not have this problem. Is there some as-yet-unused zone of level 5 pandaren that I don't know about? Obviously they will be making a new zone for the new race to start in. And what's to stop them from having the Draenei start in the Outlands somewhere? The server will still have to complete the dark portal event to access all the 60-70 content. A newbie Draenei would only be able to afford the slightest peak of the new content. And they can always have NPCs provide one-way trips to Azeroth so that the newbie Draenei can level with their friends. Or, maybe they wouldn't. It would be kind of cool to play a race that is temporarily exiled from the rest of the game.
I don't know, I've seen it lots of times and I've never even worked as retail.
There was one occasion where I was at a game store, and some clueless parent was trying to buy GTA3 for her 12 year old because that's the game he asked for. Both me and the guy behind the desk actually spent 5 minutes describing the game and trying to convince her not to get it, but she bought it anyway, explaining that "oh, he knows better"
So yeah. Ratings are great, but they don't do much against stupid parents.
the "It is what IT is" graphic flashes every time I mouse-over it.
Oh I'm suppossed to talk about the Sony thing? Hmm, sucks for them.
Weird comment about Australia's exchange rate. What does that have to do with Peter Jackson? Can't Uwe Boll just as easily go to Australia to film the movie? Unless he isn't welcome there..
I agree that it's annoying. But in this case, it's not a sleazy marketing thing to make it easier for you to make an impulse buy. It really is necessary. Free characters start out with a base allowance of Linden dollars, so they need the credit card check to prevent someone from making a ton of throwaway emails/accounts and harvesting the money.
By default, a game based on a movie has to suck. Get with the times, man. Chronicals of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay already disproved that outdated belief.
Well, as long as we're going to post every single Escapist artile on slashdot, can we talk about their horrible, and almost criminal, abuse of HTML? Watch what happens when you make the window too small (and try scrolling). Watch what happens when you try to select a block of text. PLEASE, STOP THE MADNESS
Are you sure this announcement didn't come from ZDNet France?
I just got a call from 1995, they want their jokes back
Here's a method that's practically 100% reliable. You won't lose *any* formatting details. Also, the way I describe is by hand, but I'm pretty sure you could set something up to automate this.
1) Open the document in Word
2) Maximize the window
3) Take a screenshot
4) Upload the screenshot to the web
5) Done!
God the HTML on this site sucks balls. In IE, it's completely impossible to view the entire article in a browser window that's less than 800 wide.
What the hell is Jibjab? (well okay, that's a rhetorical question, I know what it is now). All those other 9 fads I remember foundly, but it seems like the only reason they put that one on there was to make a good closer. Jibjab hardly seems fad-worthy.
Heh, is this suppossed to be sarcastic? The reason no one can get anywhere in BWL right now, is because there is a bugged door that isn't opening when it should.
One crazy gnomish firework vendor does not a celebration make.
He gave you your templates back.
But your pointers? He's gonna keep those. Cause you've been bad.
I remember playing the game APB a long time ago in the arcades! Are you saying that all those litterbugs that I arrested were actually other players?
You'd better also avoid anything involving this guy then.
It had a particular fondness for Steely Dan, whose songs always seemed to pop up two or three times in the first hour of play.
I can disprove his theory right there. I listen to my iPod all the time, but mine has NEVER EVER played a Steely Dan song. Not even once. I don't even have any Steely Dan songs. So there, QED.