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  1. Re:Disposable Games Vs Design Patterns on What if Game Graphics Never Aged? · · Score: 1

    Nah, all the NPC's want to say is something along the lines of "Mind your own business" or some such.

  2. Yes, now that is the case... on Microsoft Hoping for Vista in January · · Score: 1

    But the consumer Windows line before XP, was horrible with regards to stability.

  3. Encyclopedias on Interview Looks at How and Why Wikipedia Works · · Score: 1

    You mean, this isn't true of encyclopedias in general?

  4. Re:Selling damaged books illegal now? on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    99%? You must be living in some alternate world in which the Rockstar "Hot Coffee" situation didn't create as much controversy as it did.

  5. Re:Irony... on A House For One Red Paperclip · · Score: 1

    I'm still getting a hang on this irony thing. Alanis Morissette didn't help matters. Now if he got a papercut from the paperwork for the house, would that then be ironic?

  6. Re:Tagging WTF on A House For One Red Paperclip · · Score: 1

    Sorry can't help you. Tagging apparently still isn't available for me yet.

  7. Re:I wouldn't call those games on Louisiana Politicos Defend Game Bill · · Score: 1

    But is it nature, or nurture, the idea of killing a human being, the notion that there might be a better way, or something else in the chain?

  8. Re:Cultural Problems on The Myth of the New India · · Score: 1
    What used to be castes are now communities which tend to restrict marriages to between their own members. This isn't different from any other community in the world.
    I don't know if that "restricting marriages" thing is common or not. I don't hear about it much where I live in Indiana in the United States, but then the United States doesn't consist of tight-knit communities.
  9. Re:Scaremongering on The Myth of the New India · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also 1.3M + 400M adds up to only 401M. According to Wikipedia, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India ) India has a population of 1,103M, so what's going on here?

  10. Re:I wouldn't call those games on Louisiana Politicos Defend Game Bill · · Score: 1

    "aimed specifically at breaking down the natural resistance to killing."
    Is there in fact a natural resistance to killing? People kill bugs without thinking every day. It's ridiculous to explain the tendency to not kill to a "natural resistance to killing". Killing takes more effort the bigger the creature you want to kill. Additionally, there are consequences to killing.

  11. You can only legislate morality. on Louisiana Politicos Defend Game Bill · · Score: 1

    You can't legislate aesthetics. However, I have come to accept utility as distinct from either one, though it appears to be a mixture of both. But that begs the question. which is some variant of "What can/should be legislated?"

  12. The same lessons... on Smart Software Development on Impossible Schedules · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's so irritating is that the previous generation pretends that they've known the lessons all their life and takes them for granted, begs the question as to the right way, and any other similar sins of... what sort of sins are these anyways?

    Oh, and none of them come up with a cure to the problem, but insist that doing it their way is the cure.

  13. Re:Impossible schedule? No problem. on Smart Software Development on Impossible Schedules · · Score: 1

    Join a pre-existing open source development group?

  14. Re:Relating on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's disgraceful to parasites, leeches, and any other "disgusting foul creature", too... but then so is calling those creatures "disgusting foul creatures"

  15. Economy and recessionary trends on Australia Wants to Regulate Internet Streaming · · Score: 1

    Redistributing resources to producing different goods has a recessionary effect. Done at the right time the effect is minimal, but the United States, at least, is too overly skittish about things that have a recessionary effect, so by the time the change is made it causes big recession problems.

  16. Re:For those who are confused, its a turkey slap on Australia Wants to Regulate Internet Streaming · · Score: 1
    I do not know what type of parties the majority of slashdotters attend
    Parties? Aren't they an endangered species of some sort? Where could I find one of these Par-ties?

    But seriously, I don't hear of parties except for birthday parties held by family members and acquaintances. Oh, and holiday gatherings might count as parties.
  17. No, moral relativism is... on AP Looks at Piracy, Misses the Point · · Score: 1

    What I believe is morally right is okay and what you believe is morally right is okay.

  18. Re:WANTED: Surrogate Corporate Parents on AP Looks at Piracy, Misses the Point · · Score: 1

    No, the problem with todays youth is that morals throughout history were flawed, but the previous generations all seem to think that theirs don't bear improvement. The big thing I keep hearing is "Respect for elders" without first addressing respect for everyone. Further digging seems to expose a mindset that only elders should get respect, which is more deference than respect. The movie "Time changer" exposes the problem somewhat, but it's clueless as to the faults of the generation it holds in esteem, whis is also part of the problem.
    http://www.timechangermovie.com/site/home.htm

  19. Re:Is this a surprise? on AP Looks at Piracy, Misses the Point · · Score: 1

    Let's look at the simple black and white of the matter. Property is theft. Whether you agree with it or not, it's theft.

    So, according to your post, property is bad.

  20. Re:EffPeee!!! No Surprise Here on Want Security? Make The Switch · · Score: 1

    How did "pieces" turn into "kinds" though?

  21. Re:New Game on Gamer's Kryptonite · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well consider if the character you were given to do it with was less physically imposing than a one-legged, asthmatic kitten with a concussion. Good for gameplay balance though.

  22. Spyro on Gamer's Kryptonite · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What make's Spyro's courses better than Superman 64's. I haven't played the latter. Also, Pilotwings 64 has a similar gameplay.

  23. Re:Worth doing vs. feasible on How can a Developer Estimate Times? · · Score: 1

    Nobody was talking about "worth doing". The question is about feasibility, whether of doing the project at all, or coming up with an estimate of how long it would take.

  24. My entire life is backwards... on How can a Developer Estimate Times? · · Score: 1

    Any advice with that? Though from the looks of things, there isn't anyone that's going the right direction.

    What skills would I need to develop to be more forward? Everyone just takes them for granted and looks at me funny when I try to explain that I don't have them and that I'm not even sure what they are exactly.

  25. How does one evaluate libraries at a glance? on How can a Developer Estimate Times? · · Score: 1

    What do you look for and what do you ignore to stay on task? A lot of the time the library is a lot to wade through, and then doesn't have relevant examples or somethingh something. Then there is the matter of coming across the library before you can even determine it's appropriateness. It's easier to learn a library or part of a library first, then figure out what the knowledge of the library enables you to do, but that's not possible, with being assigned a project first and then going about to figure out how to do it.

    I generally look at projects already in existence and then modify them, to get a feel for things.