I gets worse than that: someone has to physcially assign codes (strenght, flammability, weight etc etc.) to everything that can be deformed. That's a ridiculous amount of effort, which usually just in't worth it or cost effective. Most time it can just as easily detract from the gameplay, which can be quite important.
When we get to the point that AI learns, dev's will just have to grow their AI to that baseline inhouse before they ship. You'll get great quotes like "the game's release has been delayed because we're still potty training our AI".
You're right: B&W as a game sucked. But from a technological standpoint it was nothing short of amazing. Not to mention sales wise.
And Molineux is NOT a comedian. Populous, Syndicate Wars, Dungeon Keeper, to name but a few where groundbraking, amazing and fscking playable. Molineux revolutionised gaming, much more than Carmack (who writes great engines, sure, but innovative?) ever did.
I don't mean to come of as a Molineux groupie (uhg, what a horrible thought:{ ), but he has done some great stuff, and is doing even cooler stuff...check out Project Ego (renamed to Fable, I believe) and have a look at the thinking behind it: that's where cool gameplay comes from, and looking at his past, you know Molineux rocks, gameplay wise. So don't diss the industy giants...
Remember Budokan? Now that was tactical 1 on 1 combat. Street fighter 2 was nearly on that level, so was Tekken 3. But they never beat it for actual "thinking man's" beat em up action.
Tell that to those poor electrons we have slaving away, whipped to faster and faster speeds. They don't even get overtime or even an uptime bonus. Poor sods.
32 meg is peanuts on a wince machine, but not on a palm. Not only is the footprint for programs smaller, but I still run everything I need (graphing, programmable calculators; doc editor; gameboy emulator; numerous other games; excel compatible spreadsheets; about 6 books; internet browser; phone apps; datebook; agenda) quite comfortably on the 8 megs on my IIIc.
For more storage, well, that's what the removable storage is for.
Plus you need to remember that a PDA is NOT a laptop, and isn't meant to replace one.
And finaly, what I've been waiting for to replace my IIIc is a palmOS, highrez colour screen, removable strorage, wireless (wifi or bluetooth), integrated mobile phone PDA. Looks like Palm is the one to deliver...Kyocera and Treo just didn't get it.
At one point Moses comes down the mountain with his tablets, I believ in a rage (at the idolation going on (or in hapiness from just having spoken to the metatron, I forget)). Due to a mistranslation of the hebrew, for hundreds of years it read in the bible "And moses came down the mountain with horns".
Yes, we're talking about actual horns, the devil thing:) If you look at paintings made during this time, you will see moses with horns on his head:) Makes you wonder what else hasn't been caught yet...also makes folly of that "immutable word of god" bit:)
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It somehow strikes me that the people who would go for the 'regimented regime' of dressing up for work even if they work from the home are exactly the kind of people who would agree to participate in and send in such questionairs.
More of them, less of the other...how can your numbers mean anything then?
Just to debunk a common misconception: discrimination is good! It's something everybody does, too. You married or have a girlfriend? Then you discriminated (ie you chose the qualities of one girl over others [asuming you had a choice, of course]). It's just that some forms of discrimination (racism, chauvinism, nationalism) are stupid and based on nothing.
Nothing usefull? What about my PDA? Ever try using an LCD screen in the sunlight (you know, that bigass lightbulb outside) ? Not pretty...it's either e-ink or oled which'll fix that.
Also, what about wrap around workspaces? That's basically a monitor that spans your desk and curves...too expensive to do with solid screens. And of course there's all the other fun, as-of-yet unthought of stuff which will appear.
The difference is that you actually interact with your coworkers. Your friends change you and you change them. The osbournes on the other hand...that's not enlightening (like a bokk or a conversation can be), informative (except to show that yes, you haven't met the biggest idiots in tyhe world yet) or even interesting. It's scary, especially when you consider they actually get paid for that crap.
What about handing over all naming, TLD, root server and registration services to the top comp. sci. universities in the world? A huge step, but logical if you think about it.
For one, universities are all connected to a huge backbone and the technical knowhow is there too. The money coming in from domain/ip registration would come in handy to the universities, too. Hell, even if they where to make a profit, I wouldn't care that much, as long as it gets pumped back into education.
But just as important is that universities want and need a free flow of information. Transparancy is what they're about, if only because of the historical precedents of scientific research.
Sure, this would be a huge undertaking to set up, but there are even more benefits here: the fact that more dns servers are around mean the internet will be what it has always meant to be. Decentralised in a big way, and if a top uni comes up, hell, put it in the loop. The pieces of pie get thinner, but that's the whole point: this pie is not for consumption.
I'm kinda sick of seeing this kind of comment. If it where to hold any merit, WTF would 'ask slashdot' be for? To me, the whole purpose of the 'ask slashdot' catagory is to plumb the experience of the people who frequent this place. If you're not allowed to do that, what would you use it for?
It goes even further than that: if tobacco where to be made illegal tomorrow, the consequences would be very harsh inded: a HUGE decrease in tax revenue, which in part pays directly for a lot of healthcare (anti-cancer research [which you also can get if you don't smoke] would be down the tubes) and a lot of other public services.
So next time you see someone light one of those cancersticks up, thank him for the time, money and effort he/she is contributing to your healthcare.
I cannot agree with you for one simple reason. Corporations get the same rights as individual persons, but they lack one very important, if not crucial aspect of being a person: morals.
Sure, corporations have acharter, but that states nothing more than it's one purpose: make money for the shareholder. And that does not a code of ethics make. I would argue that if you lack any form of morals or ethics, you cannot and should not be treated as a human being. Therefore giving corporations 'human rights' is rediculous.
You should realise that having a coupleof these in out of the way villages can actually help people to read. A "learning to read and write" program should be pretty easy to program on such a machine...drop it in a smallish group of kids, and they'll have it down soon enough. This device is an enabler for what you're complaining about. And at the low cost of the machine, it's actually quite do-able for the governemnt (ie affordable).
You can already burn your own CD at stores in the Netherlands. Costs 0.99 a song. But what would be even better is if you could burn music from the internet at these stores, with some kind of electronic means of ensuring royalties get to the artists.
This should also scale to home use, but I like the store pradigm as the people working there (in a good store) know enough about music to recomend cool stuff.
Thery're not so much meeting trade show deadlines, which are nice, as trying to meet holiday buying seasons, which are 'essential'. But I'm always happy when I see a company which puts gamer-satisfaction over accountant satisfaction.
The odd thing is that somehow a lot of companies don't realise that one translates into the other (i.e. gameplay/satisfaction==$)
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I gets worse than that: someone has to physcially assign codes (strenght, flammability, weight etc etc.) to everything that can be deformed. That's a ridiculous amount of effort, which usually just in't worth it or cost effective. Most time it can just as easily detract from the gameplay, which can be quite important.
When we get to the point that AI learns, dev's will just have to grow their AI to that baseline inhouse before they ship. You'll get great quotes like "the game's release has been delayed because we're still potty training our AI".
You're right: B&W as a game sucked. But from a technological standpoint it was nothing short of amazing. Not to mention sales wise.
:{ ), but he has done some great stuff, and is doing even cooler stuff...check out Project Ego (renamed to Fable, I believe) and have a look at the thinking behind it: that's where cool gameplay comes from, and looking at his past, you know Molineux rocks, gameplay wise. So don't diss the industy giants...
And Molineux is NOT a comedian. Populous, Syndicate Wars, Dungeon Keeper, to name but a few where groundbraking, amazing and fscking playable. Molineux revolutionised gaming, much more than Carmack (who writes great engines, sure, but innovative?) ever did.
I don't mean to come of as a Molineux groupie (uhg, what a horrible thought
Remember Budokan? Now that was tactical 1 on 1 combat. Street fighter 2 was nearly on that level, so was Tekken 3. But they never beat it for actual "thinking man's" beat em up action.
Tell that to those poor electrons we have slaving away, whipped to faster and faster speeds. They don't even get overtime or even an uptime bonus. Poor sods.
32 meg is peanuts on a wince machine, but not on a palm. Not only is the footprint for programs smaller, but I still run everything I need (graphing, programmable calculators; doc editor; gameboy emulator; numerous other games; excel compatible spreadsheets; about 6 books; internet browser; phone apps; datebook; agenda) quite comfortably on the 8 megs on my IIIc.
For more storage, well, that's what the removable storage is for.
Plus you need to remember that a PDA is NOT a laptop, and isn't meant to replace one.
And finaly, what I've been waiting for to replace my IIIc is a palmOS, highrez colour screen, removable strorage, wireless (wifi or bluetooth), integrated mobile phone PDA. Looks like Palm is the one to deliver...Kyocera and Treo just didn't get it.
I don't know what amused me more...your comment or the fact that it was modded informative.
"if you chose to believe our copies of the NT texts unreliable,"
I do; have you evver looked at the Windows help files?
Another cute mistranslation:
:) If you look at paintings made during this time, you will see moses with horns on his head :) Makes you wonder what else hasn't been caught yet...also makes folly of that "immutable word of god" bit :)
At one point Moses comes down the mountain with his tablets, I believ in a rage (at the idolation going on (or in hapiness from just having spoken to the metatron, I forget)). Due to a mistranslation of the hebrew, for hundreds of years it read in the bible "And moses came down the mountain with horns".
Yes, we're talking about actual horns, the devil thing
It somehow strikes me that the people who would go for the 'regimented regime' of dressing up for work even if they work from the home are exactly the kind of people who would agree to participate in and send in such questionairs.
More of them, less of the other...how can your numbers mean anything then?
Yet another case of statistics being meaningless.
Just to debunk a common misconception: discrimination is good! It's something everybody does, too. You married or have a girlfriend? Then you discriminated (ie you chose the qualities of one girl over others [asuming you had a choice, of course]). It's just that some forms of discrimination (racism, chauvinism, nationalism) are stupid and based on nothing.
Damn, and here's me thinking that it had more to do with the fact that the US is pissing away about 50%(!!!) fof it's national budget on the military.
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Nothing usefull? What about my PDA? Ever try using an LCD screen in the sunlight (you know, that bigass lightbulb outside) ? Not pretty...it's either e-ink or oled which'll fix that.
Also, what about wrap around workspaces? That's basically a monitor that spans your desk and curves...too expensive to do with solid screens. And of course there's all the other fun, as-of-yet unthought of stuff which will appear.
The difference is that you actually interact with your coworkers. Your friends change you and you change them. The osbournes on the other hand...that's not enlightening (like a bokk or a conversation can be), informative (except to show that yes, you haven't met the biggest idiots in tyhe world yet) or even interesting. It's scary, especially when you consider they actually get paid for that crap.
What about handing over all naming, TLD, root server and registration services to the top comp. sci. universities in the world? A huge step, but logical if you think about it.
For one, universities are all connected to a huge backbone and the technical knowhow is there too. The money coming in from domain/ip registration would come in handy to the universities, too. Hell, even if they where to make a profit, I wouldn't care that much, as long as it gets pumped back into education.
But just as important is that universities want and need a free flow of information. Transparancy is what they're about, if only because of the historical precedents of scientific research.
Sure, this would be a huge undertaking to set up, but there are even more benefits here: the fact that more dns servers are around mean the internet will be what it has always meant to be. Decentralised in a big way, and if a top uni comes up, hell, put it in the loop. The pieces of pie get thinner, but that's the whole point: this pie is not for consumption.
Or am I missing something here?
I'm kinda sick of seeing this kind of comment. If it where to hold any merit, WTF would 'ask slashdot' be for? To me, the whole purpose of the 'ask slashdot' catagory is to plumb the experience of the people who frequent this place. If you're not allowed to do that, what would you use it for?
IANAProgrammer, but doesn't this kinda contradict itself?
"Do not duplicate any code, anywhere"
and:
"Make your work easy to reuse"
It goes even further than that: if tobacco where to be made illegal tomorrow, the consequences would be very harsh inded: a HUGE decrease in tax revenue, which in part pays directly for a lot of healthcare (anti-cancer research [which you also can get if you don't smoke] would be down the tubes) and a lot of other public services.
So next time you see someone light one of those cancersticks up, thank him for the time, money and effort he/she is contributing to your healthcare.
I dare you to start working in a big corporation which uses Windows and ask for a Linux machine.
So where's you're choice now?
I cannot agree with you for one simple reason. Corporations get the same rights as individual persons, but they lack one very important, if not crucial aspect of being a person: morals.
Sure, corporations have acharter, but that states nothing more than it's one purpose: make money for the shareholder. And that does not a code of ethics make. I would argue that if you lack any form of morals or ethics, you cannot and should not be treated as a human being. Therefore giving corporations 'human rights' is rediculous.
You should realise that having a coupleof these in out of the way villages can actually help people to read. A "learning to read and write" program should be pretty easy to program on such a machine...drop it in a smallish group of kids, and they'll have it down soon enough. This device is an enabler for what you're complaining about. And at the low cost of the machine, it's actually quite do-able for the governemnt (ie affordable).
You can already burn your own CD at stores in the Netherlands. Costs 0.99 a song.
But what would be even better is if you could burn music from the internet at these stores, with some kind of electronic means of ensuring royalties get to the artists.
This should also scale to home use, but I like the store pradigm as the people working there (in a good store) know enough about music to recomend cool stuff.
Thery're not so much meeting trade show deadlines, which are nice, as trying to meet holiday buying seasons, which are 'essential'. But I'm always happy when I see a company which puts gamer-satisfaction over accountant satisfaction.
The odd thing is that somehow a lot of companies don't realise that one translates into the other (i.e. gameplay/satisfaction==$)
Well, that beats Bungie with their PC/Mac game title "Halo". By a long shot; marketing trick like that have always pissed me off.