I'm with you on that one - let's count the similarities, shall we?
Both games are 3D FPSs with portals whose names start with P.
What about the differences?
Prey: spirit walking, gravity manipulation, Native American protagonist, "living" level design. Portal: at-will portal creation, portals don't have to share horizontal/vertical orientation, "futuristic" level design.
This isn't including the assumptions one could make about the gameplay: knowing Valve, the player character will be silent, where the Prey protagonist is extremely visible in-game. Physics puzzles will most likely be a big part of Portal, where gravity/spirit walk puzzles are the major focus of (what I've played of) Prey. Portal looks like more of a multiplayer-focused game, where Prey has a pretty complex single-player aspect.
Ripoff or not, I think they both look like a lot of fun. That's still what's important, right?
(Somewhat off-topic: I created Prey-type portals -- you know, the static ones? -- back in the original Unreal Tournament. Good times.)
The 802.11a/b/g standards have nothing to do with the user interface of a wireless device. The POSIX standard has nothing to do with Linux's position in the marketplace (mostly a UI, marketing, and inertia issue). The SQL standard has nothing to do with why every database works slightly differently: it only attempts to set some rules on what they do the same.
Just as the CSS standard (and the standards body) has nothing to do with why browsers all render it differently. The standard defines how the browser should render - some browsers just ignore it.
He's blaming the wrong group...
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"Another fine mess from the standards bodies."
What? So, the reason why CSS renders differently on each browser is because of the standards bodies?
In other news: The POSIX standard is why Linux isn't the top operating system. The SQL standard is why every database works slightly differently (enough to trip you up). The 802.11a/b/g standards are why wireless can be a pain to set up...
A couple things: You can do both in OOo, but you can also do both in MS Office.
The problem is that while they both have the functionality, the keyboard interface is better in OOo and the GUI interface is better in MS Office. Given the choice between the two, OOo is better if you're writing a paper with a lot of equations, and MS Office is better if you need the occasional math formatting.
Of course, LaTeX is better for any real writing that has to be done, but everyone forgets about that:)
In 2004, Bush got a little over 28% of support (from people of voting age). Kerry got a little under 26.7%. (numbers from the firsttwo sites on Google for "election voter turnout")
As you said, these numbers don't even reflect actual voter support: some (you and I presume large) fraction of these voters are only voting to keep the other guy out of office, making the support for the leader of the country miniscule at best.
- THE DIRECTOR IS THE ONLY MASTER ON BOARD AFTER GOD! (DITOMOBAG). He is the guarantee of the global consistency of the vision. He makes sure all the elements of the game contribute to creating the same emotion. His choices can/must be subjective. They may be debatable when taken individually but it is imperative that they form part of a global vision that is clear and consistent.
When a state sponsored law enforcement official does their work they are enacting the will of a democratically elected governement. It is a careful and methodical process designed to protect the innocent.
Perhaps the GP was from the US, where that doesn't hold true anymore...
Really? Thanks for the information - I remembered that the exchange took place, and Google took me somewhere that had it attributed thus. The things I misquote...
Ideally, the minimum amount of memory used by a piece of software is the executable size. With Bittorrent, the program might gain speed at the expense of memory (hard drive reads and writes are expensive), but the base size is pretty close to the executable.
Torrent loads at 160KB before starting a download. Azureus has to load more than ten times that, just to start up. Yes, that's still pretty good. My point was that it could be done better.
Stallman's argument for free software is (because we haven't seen a car analogy in this thread yet) like arguing to keep the hood of a car from being welded shut. The average driver might not care, but the average mechanic probably would.
Perhaps I'm not understanding you very well - I'm interested in open source in general (I've even fixed a few bugs in several projects), and I think that it adds quite a lot to the quality of software as well as the power of computer users (we have a good compiler, operating system, web server, etc., all of which will never be end-of-lifed because of the availability of the source).
Are you for, against, apathetic, or something else?
The first is that people don't just use Google for "news", but for research of various kinds.
In case you missed it, Google isn't removing the sites from the index, just from the news section. People using the site for research would still find these sites.
The second problem is that Google evidently has an overly broad notion of hate speech,.... True hate speech falsely vilifies a group of people and urges violence or discrimination against them.
Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but it seems that these sites do vilify and urge violence/discrimination against people.
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Reminds me of the Penny Arcade comic that came out last year.
I must have missed that: all the portals I saw were either horizontal on both ends or vertical on both ends. The general point still stands, though.
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I'm with you on that one - let's count the similarities, shall we?
Both games are 3D FPSs with portals whose names start with P.
What about the differences?
Prey: spirit walking, gravity manipulation, Native American protagonist, "living" level design.
Portal: at-will portal creation, portals don't have to share horizontal/vertical orientation, "futuristic" level design.
This isn't including the assumptions one could make about the gameplay: knowing Valve, the player character will be silent, where the Prey protagonist is extremely visible in-game. Physics puzzles will most likely be a big part of Portal, where gravity/spirit walk puzzles are the major focus of (what I've played of) Prey. Portal looks like more of a multiplayer-focused game, where Prey has a pretty complex single-player aspect.
Ripoff or not, I think they both look like a lot of fun. That's still what's important, right?
(Somewhat off-topic: I created Prey-type portals -- you know, the static ones? -- back in the original Unreal Tournament. Good times.)
The 802.11a/b/g standards have nothing to do with the user interface of a wireless device.
The POSIX standard has nothing to do with Linux's position in the marketplace (mostly a UI, marketing, and inertia issue).
The SQL standard has nothing to do with why every database works slightly differently: it only attempts to set some rules on what they do the same.
Just as the CSS standard (and the standards body) has nothing to do with why browsers all render it differently. The standard defines how the browser should render - some browsers just ignore it.
"Another fine mess from the standards bodies."
What? So, the reason why CSS renders differently on each browser is because of the standards bodies?
In other news: The POSIX standard is why Linux isn't the top operating system. The SQL standard is why every database works slightly differently (enough to trip you up). The 802.11a/b/g standards are why wireless can be a pain to set up...
It's more of an Emacs thing: Ctrl-this and Meta-that. I didn't think it was disabled, at least in MS Office 2003, but I could be mistaken.
Definitely a pain to work with, though. As I said above, if you want to do large amounts of equation editing, use OOo or LaTeX.
...tracts of land?
A couple things: You can do both in OOo, but you can also do both in MS Office.
:)
The problem is that while they both have the functionality, the keyboard interface is better in OOo and the GUI interface is better in MS Office. Given the choice between the two, OOo is better if you're writing a paper with a lot of equations, and MS Office is better if you need the occasional math formatting.
Of course, LaTeX is better for any real writing that has to be done, but everyone forgets about that
The key difference being that architectural plans are generally a lot more precise than the documentation given to programmers.
Thus, we bitch (as you put it).
In 2004, Bush got a little over 28% of support (from people of voting age). Kerry got a little under 26.7%. (numbers from the first two sites on Google for "election voter turnout")
As you said, these numbers don't even reflect actual voter support: some (you and I presume large) fraction of these voters are only voting to keep the other guy out of office, making the support for the leader of the country miniscule at best.
Interesting statistics, just thought I'd post.
Absolutely. You've got to fight for it. *deadpan*
Whatever will we do with the Borg-Gates icon?
Bruce Perens agrees with you.
No matter how you feel about them, the [other] telcos aren't just targeting them with this bill.
Bremerton (Silverdale too, for that matter) is 360. Seattle is 206.
Watch who you call a moron.
When a state sponsored law enforcement official does their work they are enacting the will of a democratically elected governement. It is a careful and methodical process designed to protect the innocent.
Perhaps the GP was from the US, where that doesn't hold true anymore...
over 200 patches were contributed back to the Wine project.
That's awesome.
Really? Thanks for the information - I remembered that the exchange took place, and Google took me somewhere that had it attributed thus. The things I misquote...
Ideally, the minimum amount of memory used by a piece of software is the executable size. With Bittorrent, the program might gain speed at the expense of memory (hard drive reads and writes are expensive), but the base size is pretty close to the executable.
Torrent loads at 160KB before starting a download. Azureus has to load more than ten times that, just to start up. Yes, that's still pretty good. My point was that it could be done better.
Stallman's argument for free software is (because we haven't seen a car analogy in this thread yet) like arguing to keep the hood of a car from being welded shut. The average driver might not care, but the average mechanic probably would.
Perhaps I'm not understanding you very well - I'm interested in open source in general (I've even fixed a few bugs in several projects), and I think that it adds quite a lot to the quality of software as well as the power of computer users (we have a good compiler, operating system, web server, etc., all of which will never be end-of-lifed because of the availability of the source).
Are you for, against, apathetic, or something else?
The first is that people don't just use Google for "news", but for research of various kinds.
In case you missed it, Google isn't removing the sites from the index, just from the news section. People using the site for research would still find these sites.
The second problem is that Google evidently has an overly broad notion of hate speech,.... True hate speech falsely vilifies a group of people and urges violence or discrimination against them.
Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but it seems that these sites do vilify and urge violence/discrimination against people.
"Come to think of it, before 9/11, we never heard of words like Al Qaeda, Taliban, Jihad, Homeland Security..."
:)
It would have been hard to miss..., unless, of course, you paid no attention to the news.
Perhaps they're not being inaccurate: they just don't pay attention to the news