...is bad management, plain and simple.
If game development teams had better management and more realistic timelines, the programmers would not have to pull 12-hour shifts and we would be seeing higher quality titles on the market.
...is bloggers.
I agree with the court's ruling in this case. Most blogs that I read are statements of opinion, but that doesn't make them journalism. Yes, bloggers write on subjects of interest, but many do not even attempt to present well-rounded, unbiased arguments. The title of "journalist" should be reserved for those who are really journalists.
From their website: "It is related to using a payment account information to verify the identity of a user, the payment account may be a credit account, before providing the user access to computer software/apparatus."
Apparently, Pat-Rights has a patent which covers ANY logins in which a payment account is used to verify the user. So companies such as shareware companies, online websites that accept subscribers (redvsblue.com, slashdot.org, userfriendly.org, etc.), Amazon, Buy.com...
Who hasn't violated their patent rights?
I never find my wrists hurting from mousing. Rather, I find myself sore after typing. This mouse seems to simulate the motions which I would associate with typing, and which I find stressful to perform.
Why switch from a tension-free action to a stressful one?
...that they haven't been playing too much Doom 3.
DOCTOR (regarding the screen): Well, it is very dark.... And, OH MY GOD A ZOMBIE!!!! AAHHAAHH!!!111!!!1!! DIE MOTHERF*CKER!!!! oh, oops... (nervous laugh) don't worry, you can survive with only one kidney...
...we will be reviewing FIRE!
Fire offers thousands of hours of fun for you and your family! And it is cheap: only two sticks of roughly equal size and dimensions are needed!
Don't even get me started on the cooperative play!
"That's not to say that these so-called "gearheads" don't like to party. Champagne and chardonnay flowed, and they ate well, too -- dining on pumpkin soup, asparagus ravioli and a duet of seared beef medallion and fennel-crusted sea bass."
...and then after the appetizers, the ramen was served!
EA Games: makes its employees work uncompensated overtime in order to make deadlines (read: in order to keep their jobs).
US Army: bans and declares cheaters on game servers to be compromising to national security.
One is killing people to make games, the other is killings people for playing...
Fitzghon
"I personally think we made a game that hard-core adult male gamers would enjoy. But I can understand that some of them would reject it the same way some adults reject Shrek or Beethoven. But personally, I think that really means there is something wrong with a man like that, not with Portal Runner. "
So... Bad games aren't bad, they just have bad gamers?
Fitzghon
Travel around your house and collect dust. Once you have a lot of dust (in a bowl, perhaps) turn off the "addict"'s computer, open it up, dump the dust inside the case (especially all around the CPU, memory, and graphics card), and then close up the case.
Within a week, their computer is going to overheat, and then they will be forced to stop gaming for a while.
Fitzghon
I am a steady user of Firefox, it is truely a wonderful browser that fulfills all my needs, is lightweight and does not crash every six seconds, like a certain, other, microsoft-produced, browser that I will not name.
Apparently, MacKinnon has worked on some of his x-ray crystallograpy in my father's synchrotron... He's scheduled to come in next thursday, I'll have to find out if he's going to make if, and if I can meet him.
Hey, I'm only 14 and a bunch of my friends and I play White Wolf and D&D. I know that we, at least, do actually roleplay. The entire "ooh, look my character can levitate that horde of orcs AND kill them all with chain lightning" effect has dwindled away to nothing in us. We simply have fun roleplaying.
I have recently moved from an old Pentium (1) clone (500 mHz) with an ATI Rage Pro to a nice and crisp Athlon 1700+ with 512 DDR memory, and a Geforce 2 MX. My hard drive is also fast, 7200 rpms.
I am a little interested in why there is any need to upgrade to the new nVidia chips. My computer can crank out ~450 fps if I am just gaming (and I can easily keep my minimum fps above 200 in UnrealTournament if I am also playing mp3s in the background).
This is great, and will probably be enough for a while. The only problem is that my monitor's refresh rate's at 85 hertz. Shouldn't people like me upgrade our monitors quite a bit before we even touch our graphics cards again, or am I not understanding something?
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...is bad management, plain and simple.
If game development teams had better management and more realistic timelines, the programmers would not have to pull 12-hour shifts and we would be seeing higher quality titles on the market.
Fitzghon
...is bloggers.
I agree with the court's ruling in this case. Most blogs that I read are statements of opinion, but that doesn't make them journalism. Yes, bloggers write on subjects of interest, but many do not even attempt to present well-rounded, unbiased arguments.
The title of "journalist" should be reserved for those who are really journalists.
Fitzghon
From their website:
"It is related to using a payment account information to verify the identity of a user, the payment account may be a credit account, before providing the user access to computer software/apparatus."
Apparently, Pat-Rights has a patent which covers ANY logins in which a payment account is used to verify the user. So companies such as shareware companies, online websites that accept subscribers (redvsblue.com, slashdot.org, userfriendly.org, etc.), Amazon, Buy.com...
Who hasn't violated their patent rights?
Fitzghon
I never find my wrists hurting from mousing. Rather, I find myself sore after typing. This mouse seems to simulate the motions which I would associate with typing, and which I find stressful to perform.
Why switch from a tension-free action to a stressful one?
Fitzghon
... with a Beowulf cluster of these things?
Fitzghon
...that they haven't been playing too much Doom 3.
DOCTOR (regarding the screen): Well, it is very dark.... And, OH MY GOD A ZOMBIE!!!! AAHHAAHH!!!111!!!1!! DIE MOTHERF*CKER!!!! oh, oops... (nervous laugh) don't worry, you can survive with only one kidney...
...we will be reviewing FIRE!
Fire offers thousands of hours of fun for you and your family! And it is cheap: only two sticks of roughly equal size and dimensions are needed!
Don't even get me started on the cooperative play!
Fitzghon
"That's not to say that these so-called "gearheads" don't like to party. Champagne and chardonnay flowed, and they ate well, too -- dining on pumpkin soup, asparagus ravioli and a duet of seared beef medallion and fennel-crusted sea bass."
...and then after the appetizers, the ramen was served!
Fitzghon
I have an awesome firewall on my computer (it came with Windows XP!) and I encrypt all my files and every keystroke I make in real time with ROT-26!
Fitzghon
EA Games: makes its employees work uncompensated overtime in order to make deadlines (read: in order to keep their jobs). US Army: bans and declares cheaters on game servers to be compromising to national security. One is killing people to make games, the other is killings people for playing... Fitzghon
"I personally think we made a game that hard-core adult male gamers would enjoy. But I can understand that some of them would reject it the same way some adults reject Shrek or Beethoven. But personally, I think that really means there is something wrong with a man like that, not with Portal Runner. " So... Bad games aren't bad, they just have bad gamers? Fitzghon
Travel around your house and collect dust. Once you have a lot of dust (in a bowl, perhaps) turn off the "addict"'s computer, open it up, dump the dust inside the case (especially all around the CPU, memory, and graphics card), and then close up the case. Within a week, their computer is going to overheat, and then they will be forced to stop gaming for a while. Fitzghon
I am a steady user of Firefox, it is truely a wonderful browser that fulfills all my needs, is lightweight and does not crash every six seconds, like a certain, other, microsoft-produced, browser that I will not name.
Fitzghon
Apparently, MacKinnon has worked on some of his x-ray crystallograpy in my father's synchrotron...
He's scheduled to come in next thursday, I'll have to find out if he's going to make if, and if I can meet him.
Hey, I'm only 14 and a bunch of my friends and I play White Wolf and D&D. I know that we, at least, do actually roleplay. The entire "ooh, look my character can levitate that horde of orcs AND kill them all with chain lightning" effect has dwindled away to nothing in us. We simply have fun roleplaying.
I have recently moved from an old Pentium (1) clone (500 mHz) with an ATI Rage Pro to a nice and crisp Athlon 1700+ with 512 DDR memory, and a Geforce 2 MX. My hard drive is also fast, 7200 rpms. I am a little interested in why there is any need to upgrade to the new nVidia chips. My computer can crank out ~450 fps if I am just gaming (and I can easily keep my minimum fps above 200 in UnrealTournament if I am also playing mp3s in the background). This is great, and will probably be enough for a while. The only problem is that my monitor's refresh rate's at 85 hertz. Shouldn't people like me upgrade our monitors quite a bit before we even touch our graphics cards again, or am I not understanding something?
So why don't they simply breed inside each other? I am sure it would make it simpler overall, and they could quickly multiply...
Simply put, the aliens in Aliens! How would they evolve if they need to gestate inside humans?