Because we all know, that nobody who plays paintball, knows that those pellets are different than bullets. At least in 30 years there will, because education will actively be held so low that there is nobody left to know stuff. It's for the good of us all. Nanny government takes care of it aaall. Just be a nice citizen and go to bed again.
Of course there will be some outlaws, who then will still play, and maybe this time grab a real gun instead of a paintball gun, at their local illegal gun dealer. You know, It's way cooler. And then someone will shoot someone, out of pure randomness. Which will, again, prove that it was awww-right to ban them in the first place.
My god am I happy that we do not have this credit card crap in Germany. Here you can also pay with a debit entry, or at arrival (for a small fee of 2.5€), can deliver to wherever you want (if you pay the transport price of course), and when you got it, and it is not what you wanted, you can - in case you payed on arrival: Inspect it before signing and paying. And refuse to accept it, in case it's not what you wanted. - in case of a debit entry: Send it back in the first 14 days (but you have to pay the transport back), without having to state any reason, and undo the debit entry.
Which also means, fraud is much harder if you know to use those payment methods. Stuff like getting in trouble because you want it delivered where you work, because you can't be at home in work hours, is a total non-problem here.
I wonder how one could make this better in the USA too. I guess other than opening a new bank, offering new methods and technologies, and paying huge sums for being protected from other banks and the government crushing you because you do so, it's pretty much impossible.:( But hey, one can always move to another country.:)
Switzerland and Estonia sounded good in their Wikipedia entries. And Switzerland is a very very beautiful country too. (Was there for 2x2 weeks [winter and summer].)
when they're first turned on, they just boot Windows
Sorry. You lost me right there. Because this means you actually bought a copy of Windows. Which in my book counts as a crime against humanity, and should put you in jail. Yes, that is my opinion. If you disagree, say so. If you are a troll, mod me down instead, because you got no arguments anyway. This will still be what I think is the right thing.
If you are forced to install that trash as a secondary OS, that you got via torrent, because your new game does not work without it.. Well, not sure, but it certainly does not help MS. But buying it. That's like buying stuff from and other criminal cartel or group. Mafia, gun and drug dealers, etc. Same thing, different business.
What pad and what game have TWENTYSEVEN axis??? Might I inquire?
Because even if it were that way: How do you play that? With one axis for every finger, one for every toe, two controlled with your mouth, two with your butthole, and one for every ball and your dick? And what do you play with that? Version 2.0 of this thing?? ^^
Try that with the music of Aphex Twin (but use lossless files), and you might actually really find stuff in there. Wouldn't be the first time. (There is much much more. He did this many times with different images.) He even builds his own synths etc. One of the coolest geeks on the planet.:)
...but with a much higher price tag. Like at least 10 times the price. At least. So if you would rule that I would be liable for all my code, then all my code would become that expensive. And all the code of other programmers who think more than a day ahead. But I bet many would still offer nearly the same price. At least until they got sued into oblivion. ^^
but it's certainly true that lies of this magnitude can result in people being hurt or killed.
Which is not even relevant for those companies. They just calculate the price that it costs (risk assessment) and decide to go or not go with it. And apparently they already decided that it's worth it. Including the possibility of death.
But I don't think they are any different from most big industries. whether it's oil, "food", cars, or whatever...
There is a much more comfortable solution: Just enable search-on-typing. Then enter the first letters of the link, until it highlights, and press enter.:) (Unfortunately, when pressing tab, it does not behave like bash, but goes to the next link of all links.)
Then try mapping your window manager's keys better. A mapper tool helps. But it is true: A good website has to be nicely navigable with the keyboard only.
How is that different from today? If anything, then the keyboards got even worse. There is no single ergonomic keyboard on the market today, that is in a human price range (<$150).
The stuff that Microsoft does is *not* ergonomic. It is, what I call "faked ergonomy". This is when it looks ergonomic, but really isn't. Logitech is even worse. And don't ask me about those el-cheapo curved things. They are just as bad ergonomically. Plus you feel that they are cheap crap, as soon as you use them. ^^
I wish, DataHand keyboards were cheaper. Or at least that DataDesk Tech would still exist and make SmartBoards.:( (Their site exists, but there is nobody behind it.)
The question should be: Does Donkey Kong really need a story? Did it need one? Not that I know. Many old-media people use the "missing" story of games as an argument to say that they aren't art. Or not really creative. Etc. But in reality, every entertainment there will ever be, will be a subset of what a game can be.
The point is: You do not have to have everything in it at the same time. Team ball-games certainly do not have a story, do they? Some games have story. Some don't. Some are abstract. Some have a very detailed storyline and world. None of that is better than the other. Too much story/world leaves no room for imagination. No guidance at all and total freedom can feel boring. (Because you do not want a simulation of the boring reality.)
Additionally, Donkey Kong was more of a toy, in the sense of an object to play with, than a game that you play in. It had to be. Which is not bad, if you think of other things that are toys. Maybe one could imagine it like this: Kong = Rubic's cube, barrels = the cube's mechanics, running over girders/ramps = rotating parts of the cube, Jumpman (later Mario) = your hands(?).
Do not underestimate the abilities of humans with still working creativity and freedom from false (learned) conventions. ^^ I'm sure they will have their fun with the machines. Even if they "only" play games on them, they will learn. I, for one, still think games are by far the best method of teaching. Unfortunately, the "games" that are created for this purpose are crappy games, and most game developers are crappy teachers. I guess it's pretty hard to be good at both. Especially when most of those people are only average at one of them, and don't know the other at all.
As with everything else and every other tabloid media. You are no special. At least you get into the news with you cool creepy critters.The only things we got is Hitler-references and shit happening at the Oktoberfest.:P We even lost the role of the bad guy in James Bond movies to a French guy with the incredibly stupid name "Le Chiffre" ("The Digit").
I have seen wolf spiders with my own eyes. And with spread legs, they easily fill a large dinner plate. Which is way over those 10 cm. More like 18 cm.
I'm sorry for dropping the "d" at a rather unfortunate place. (At the "looks gooD".) Again... I apologize. You comment looks stiff and firm, with a well-defined form. Almost throbbing, one might say...
(If I answer to fix my error, at least I should be funny. ^^)
I'm sorry for dropping the "d" at a rather unfortunate place. (at the "looks gooD". Again... I apologize. You comment looks stiff and firm, with a well-defined form. Almost throbbing, one might say...
Richly detailed backgrounds. Textures. Wood and fur and cloth and grass. Subtle rendering of flesh tones. Give me a real taste of how well your codec handles action. Take your camera outdoors. In the rain. Out on a boat. Take it on stage.
Show me *any* geek who has ever done that. Or even seen any of that. We have only one action. With one skin tone. And you don't wanna see any part of it. Believe me. ^^
You haven't worked in the web development business for the last 5 years have you? We now use one large PNG image map for the site's UI imagery. And JPEG for photo-like images. Mainly because 256 colors and one bit transparency just suck. Especially for gradients. An JPEG can't do neither transparency, nor well-compressed, good-looking gradients. Also, semi-transparent stuff is all the hype now.
You *can* actually do them in Internet Explorer too. Because, as weird as it sounds, you can actually add DirectX filters to your CSS stylesheet. Which happen to work very well with PNG transparency.
The only reason to use GIF, is to do fading buttons and similar stuff. But usually I do not need them and just go with a static:hover image. If I really need to get fancy with the graphics, I use Flash or maybe SVG anyway.
As a final note, I'd like to mention, how well your user name fits your comments. ^^
Can someone explain to me, what the problem of you native English speakers with those names is? "Ogg" sounds great to me. Like an odd egg perhaps? Interesting. "Theora" could be some Theater theory opera thing. Nice sound in my ears. Sounds noble. "Xiph" obviously stems from "cypher", eg. cyphering -> encoding. With a pinch of alien name / high tech space thing in it. Only "Vorbis" reminds me of a German computer shop chain called "Vobis" (I didn't particularly like them)... with a bit of an "orbit" in it.
By the way: I am a person who prefers creative names to acronyms. Acronyms are just stupid/lazy. Either you make a real word out of your technical acronym, or you imagine some image/feeling, and then find the words you assign with it, to form a word out of them.
MPEG is not even a name for a format. It's the name of the group that created the format. That's how non-creative they were. In the words of Marvin: It's so depressing. ^^
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Because we all know, that nobody who plays paintball, knows that those pellets are different than bullets. At least in 30 years there will, because education will actively be held so low that there is nobody left to know stuff. It's for the good of us all. Nanny government takes care of it aaall. Just be a nice citizen and go to bed again.
Of course there will be some outlaws, who then will still play, and maybe this time grab a real gun instead of a paintball gun, at their local illegal gun dealer. You know, It's way cooler. And then someone will shoot someone, out of pure randomness. Which will, again, prove that it was awww-right to ban them in the first place.
</sarcasm>
My god am I happy that we do not have this credit card crap in Germany. Here you can also pay with a debit entry, or at arrival (for a small fee of 2.5€), can deliver to wherever you want (if you pay the transport price of course), and when you got it, and it is not what you wanted, you can
- in case you payed on arrival: Inspect it before signing and paying. And refuse to accept it, in case it's not what you wanted.
- in case of a debit entry: Send it back in the first 14 days (but you have to pay the transport back), without having to state any reason, and undo the debit entry.
Which also means, fraud is much harder if you know to use those payment methods.
Stuff like getting in trouble because you want it delivered where you work, because you can't be at home in work hours, is a total non-problem here.
I wonder how one could make this better in the USA too. I guess other than opening a new bank, offering new methods and technologies, and paying huge sums for being protected from other banks and the government crushing you because you do so, it's pretty much impossible. :( :)
But hey, one can always move to another country.
Switzerland and Estonia sounded good in their Wikipedia entries. And Switzerland is a very very beautiful country too. (Was there for 2x2 weeks [winter and summer].)
when they're first turned on, they just boot Windows
Sorry. You lost me right there. Because this means you actually bought a copy of Windows. Which in my book counts as a crime against humanity, and should put you in jail.
Yes, that is my opinion. If you disagree, say so. If you are a troll, mod me down instead, because you got no arguments anyway.
This will still be what I think is the right thing.
If you are forced to install that trash as a secondary OS, that you got via torrent, because your new game does not work without it.. Well, not sure, but it certainly does not help MS. But buying it. That's like buying stuff from and other criminal cartel or group. Mafia, gun and drug dealers, etc. Same thing, different business.
What pad and what game have TWENTYSEVEN axis??? Might I inquire?
Because even if it were that way: How do you play that? With one axis for every finger, one for every toe, two controlled with your mouth, two with your butthole, and one for every ball and your dick?
And what do you play with that? Version 2.0 of this thing?? ^^
Mmmhhh... fast crackers... Anyone got a dip?
...someone who proves that it does not work (which should be obvious, as it can't work by definition), and thereby is no invention. ^^
Yeah. Ms. PacMan told me this too.
Try that with the music of Aphex Twin (but use lossless files), and you might actually really find stuff in there. Wouldn't be the first time. (There is much much more. He did this many times with different images.) He even builds his own synths etc. One of the coolest geeks on the planet. :)
I like your style. ^^
Got an humoristic blog? With an URL for me?
...but with a much higher price tag. Like at least 10 times the price. At least.
So if you would rule that I would be liable for all my code, then all my code would become that expensive. And all the code of other programmers who think more than a day ahead.
But I bet many would still offer nearly the same price. At least until they got sued into oblivion. ^^
but it's certainly true that lies of this magnitude can result in people being hurt or killed.
Which is not even relevant for those companies. They just calculate the price that it costs (risk assessment) and decide to go or not go with it.
And apparently they already decided that it's worth it. Including the possibility of death.
But I don't think they are any different from most big industries. whether it's oil, "food", cars, or whatever...
And? Did you do it? Or did you just comment here. ^^
There is a much more comfortable solution: Just enable search-on-typing. Then enter the first letters of the link, until it highlights, and press enter. :)
(Unfortunately, when pressing tab, it does not behave like bash, but goes to the next link of all links.)
Then try mapping your window manager's keys better. A mapper tool helps.
But it is true: A good website has to be nicely navigable with the keyboard only.
our non-adjustable CT-syndrome-causing keyboard
How is that different from today? If anything, then the keyboards got even worse.
There is no single ergonomic keyboard on the market today, that is in a human price range (<$150).
The stuff that Microsoft does is *not* ergonomic. It is, what I call "faked ergonomy". This is when it looks ergonomic, but really isn't.
Logitech is even worse. And don't ask me about those el-cheapo curved things. They are just as bad ergonomically. Plus you feel that they are cheap crap, as soon as you use them. ^^
I wish, DataHand keyboards were cheaper. Or at least that DataDesk Tech would still exist and make SmartBoards. :( (Their site exists, but there is nobody behind it.)
The question should be: Does Donkey Kong really need a story? Did it need one? Not that I know.
Many old-media people use the "missing" story of games as an argument to say that they aren't art. Or not really creative. Etc.
But in reality, every entertainment there will ever be, will be a subset of what a game can be.
The point is: You do not have to have everything in it at the same time. Team ball-games certainly do not have a story, do they?
Some games have story. Some don't. Some are abstract. Some have a very detailed storyline and world. None of that is better than the other. Too much story/world leaves no room for imagination. No guidance at all and total freedom can feel boring. (Because you do not want a simulation of the boring reality.)
Additionally, Donkey Kong was more of a toy, in the sense of an object to play with, than a game that you play in. It had to be.
Which is not bad, if you think of other things that are toys. Maybe one could imagine it like this: Kong = Rubic's cube, barrels = the cube's mechanics, running over girders/ramps = rotating parts of the cube, Jumpman (later Mario) = your hands(?).
Do not underestimate the abilities of humans with still working creativity and freedom from false (learned) conventions. ^^
I'm sure they will have their fun with the machines. Even if they "only" play games on them, they will learn. I, for one, still think games are by far the best method of teaching.
Unfortunately, the "games" that are created for this purpose are crappy games, and most game developers are crappy teachers. I guess it's pretty hard to be good at both. Especially when most of those people are only average at one of them, and don't know the other at all.
Yeah. At least Cyrix tastes of *something* (silicon). And they are quite crunchy too.
Mmmhhh... chips...
As with everything else and every other tabloid media. You are no special. :P
At least you get into the news with you cool creepy critters.The only things we got is Hitler-references and shit happening at the Oktoberfest.
We even lost the role of the bad guy in James Bond movies to a French guy with the incredibly stupid name "Le Chiffre" ("The Digit").
I have seen wolf spiders with my own eyes. And with spread legs, they easily fill a large dinner plate. Which is way over those 10 cm. More like 18 cm.
I'm sorry for dropping the "d" at a rather unfortunate place. (At the "looks gooD".) Again... I apologize. You comment looks stiff and firm, with a well-defined form. Almost throbbing, one might say...
(If I answer to fix my error, at least I should be funny. ^^)
I'm sorry for dropping the "d" at a rather unfortunate place. (at the "looks gooD". Again... I apologize. You comment looks stiff and firm, with a well-defined form. Almost throbbing, one might say...
But only if they are half pig. Spiderpig, Spiderpig, rips your heart out, wearing a wig (to get trough the airport controls).
Did you know that spiders mate their mate that they just did meet, before they transform them into meat to eat, mate?
Richly detailed backgrounds.
Textures. Wood and fur and cloth and grass. Subtle rendering of flesh tones.
Give me a real taste of how well your codec handles action. Take your camera outdoors. In the rain. Out on a boat. Take it on stage.
Show me *any* geek who has ever done that. Or even seen any of that. We have only one action. With one skin tone. And you don't wanna see any part of it. Believe me. ^^
You haven't worked in the web development business for the last 5 years have you?
We now use one large PNG image map for the site's UI imagery. And JPEG for photo-like images.
Mainly because 256 colors and one bit transparency just suck. Especially for gradients. An JPEG can't do neither transparency, nor well-compressed, good-looking gradients.
Also, semi-transparent stuff is all the hype now.
You *can* actually do them in Internet Explorer too. Because, as weird as it sounds, you can actually add DirectX filters to your CSS stylesheet. Which happen to work very well with PNG transparency.
The only reason to use GIF, is to do fading buttons and similar stuff. But usually I do not need them and just go with a static :hover image. If I really need to get fancy with the graphics, I use Flash or maybe SVG anyway.
As a final note, I'd like to mention, how well your user name fits your comments. ^^
Can someone explain to me, what the problem of you native English speakers with those names is?
"Ogg" sounds great to me. Like an odd egg perhaps? Interesting.
"Theora" could be some Theater theory opera thing. Nice sound in my ears. Sounds noble.
"Xiph" obviously stems from "cypher", eg. cyphering -> encoding. With a pinch of alien name / high tech space thing in it.
Only "Vorbis" reminds me of a German computer shop chain called "Vobis" (I didn't particularly like them)... with a bit of an "orbit" in it.
By the way: I am a person who prefers creative names to acronyms. Acronyms are just stupid/lazy. Either you make a real word out of your technical acronym, or you imagine some image/feeling, and then find the words you assign with it, to form a word out of them.
MPEG is not even a name for a format. It's the name of the group that created the format. That's how non-creative they were. In the words of Marvin: It's so depressing. ^^