Humans are at the top of the food chain because we won at the "survival of the fittest" game; if something can knock us off the top spot, maybe it deserves it? And if we can find a way to make ourselves immune to biological attacks, then that just puts us in a better position when the aliens invade:-)
"Diebold" always struck me as such a typical bond-villain type of name; "Premier Election Systems" sounds like it's trying to cover up that the company is run by the mafia... maybe they should buy voting machines from ACME? Sure they'd blow up every now and then, and the roadrunner would get away, but in many ways such obvious failure would be better than subtle and undetected vote-rigging:-)
Try before you buy. Why is it that we have to pay for a game before we play it?
Because once you have something, the psychological push to then go and pay for it afterwards is an uphill struggle; once you've completed a game and thus have significantly less use for it than you did originally, it gets an order of magnitude harder. Thus, even well-intending people often delay until infinity, or move on to the next game and forget.
Secondly, because the people who created it say so, and if they want to shoot themselves in the foot by not providing a sufficient demo, then that's their choice, not yours.
It seems that the advertisment network has noticed that this page is talking about chrome a lot -- all the ads I see are "Download chrome for XP / Vista". Smart, but considering my user-agent is Opera/Linux, not smart enough...
And there ARE original English games (ie with good writing) which come out from time to time
I was talking in the context of visual novels, which are a much smaller market~
I wouldn't read Nancy Drew or watch a soap opera, because it's all meaningless emotional shit. I can't imagine the stories in erotica-stripped erotica being much different than either of those.
I can't actually remember the last time something like that was successful... For examples of recent ero-game to tv adaptions, see Utawarerumono and Fate/Stay Night, both of which appealed to my action / sci-fi tastes (though come to think of it, neither are sci-fi per se; Soul Link is a very sci-fi ero-game adaption, but overall not as memorable as the previous two)
I've seen games with no plot, linear plot, and branching plot, interactive novels being script-wise, in the same group as branching plot -- what games are there that are more complicated than that?
Unless he wants to work in the field of porn videogames, which also suffers from a lack of quality writing.
Actually, you'd be surprised: In Japan, the genre of "interactive erotic novel" is vast and surprisingly high quality; many of the stories being good enough to be popular even when the "interactive" and "erotic" parts get stripped out for TV or other media~
(Though I will concede that I have yet to see an original english language game that didn't suck:( )
Smile at someone as you walk past. Have a conversation with a stranger at a bus stop. For more hardcore players, try volunteer work at a local charity.
I was unable to play Deux Ex because I managed to get one of the few releases which came with DRM, and it refused to acknowledge the existance of my CD drive -- replacing the.exe with the one from the free and un-DRM'ed demo, everything works fine. I assume demos now come with DRM to stop this~
Do they have computers to try out what they're learning as they do so? If not, then learning practical things will be very hard; maths / logic / other general purpose theory might be more use (though without the ability to implement, "more use" might not be very much either...)
For background playing my whole collection on shuffle I use xmms2, for navigating / tagging / etc I use quod libet -- it has the best search feature I've seen anywhere (in the album view, you can filter out albums with fewer than X number of songs \o/), and laughs at my puny 10,000 song collection:P (wtf at the other replies of "I have 300 songs and it works ok" o_O)
It's still not quite as simple and scalable as foobar on windows though...
rainbow tables require you to pre-know (or at least calculate) all possible values; thus it works ok for dictionary words (easy to know) and short alphanumeric strings (easy to generate), but generating a set of tables which contain every possible domain name would take an un-usefully long time.
I can't live without svn. Svn is a revision control repository, usually used for source code. What makes it really powerful is that you can _easily_ have a history of everything that has changed in a file and when
Git does the same, but is faster, and no dependency on an external repository \o/
I'm no mathematician, but I think that all knots (in the traditional definition, ie one string with two ends) can be undone in theory by taking one end and using the string as a path, feeding the end back along its own route; in practice, friction is a problem~
if they think, Java is appropriate for mobile devices
The java mobile stack is very different to the standard stack, like the only thing it has in common being the.class file format; Python (AFAIK) only has the PC-optimised version (as well as java and.net implementations, but they're also PC-optimised...)
On Windows, it used to be the same steps for over 10 years. Right click -> Properties -> Share is all it takes, also making SMB shares just takes similar steps. On Linux? Will take another good hours to work with Samba...
Are you sure about that? A couple of years ago someone made this argument, so I checked for myself, and found that nautilus has right click -> share; it took one less click than windows and supported more protocols (webdav and ftp spring to mind). I would think it strange if they've removed a feature which used to work o_O
Perhaps relevant: I didn't know about this feature until I looked for it, I'd always seen the files in/etc/ and assumed that that was the only way, since people keep going on about how hard linux is to configure. Similarly I've seen a few people install things like ubuntu then compile any extra packages from source, because "on linux you need to compile everything from source". Old memes need to die:-(
Nope, it's taking the value of the variable who's name is stored in $B out of the $A namespace. Also, lots of code already uses "string"."another string" (no space between) for concatenation -- with . being used for namespaces, this would try and fetch the variable named "another string" from the "string" namespace...
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Humans are at the top of the food chain because we won at the "survival of the fittest" game; if something can knock us off the top spot, maybe it deserves it? And if we can find a way to make ourselves immune to biological attacks, then that just puts us in a better position when the aliens invade :-)
"Diebold" always struck me as such a typical bond-villain type of name; "Premier Election Systems" sounds like it's trying to cover up that the company is run by the mafia... maybe they should buy voting machines from ACME? Sure they'd blow up every now and then, and the roadrunner would get away, but in many ways such obvious failure would be better than subtle and undetected vote-rigging :-)
Try before you buy. Why is it that we have to pay for a game before we play it?
Because once you have something, the psychological push to then go and pay for it afterwards is an uphill struggle; once you've completed a game and thus have significantly less use for it than you did originally, it gets an order of magnitude harder. Thus, even well-intending people often delay until infinity, or move on to the next game and forget.
Secondly, because the people who created it say so, and if they want to shoot themselves in the foot by not providing a sufficient demo, then that's their choice, not yours.
What's even more confusing is the people who use google to find google o_O
It seems that the advertisment network has noticed that this page is talking about chrome a lot -- all the ads I see are "Download chrome for XP / Vista". Smart, but considering my user-agent is Opera/Linux, not smart enough...
And there ARE original English games (ie with good writing) which come out from time to time
I was talking in the context of visual novels, which are a much smaller market~
I wouldn't read Nancy Drew or watch a soap opera, because it's all meaningless emotional shit. I can't imagine the stories in erotica-stripped erotica being much different than either of those.
I can't actually remember the last time something like that was successful... For examples of recent ero-game to tv adaptions, see Utawarerumono and Fate/Stay Night, both of which appealed to my action / sci-fi tastes (though come to think of it, neither are sci-fi per se; Soul Link is a very sci-fi ero-game adaption, but overall not as memorable as the previous two)
I've seen games with no plot, linear plot, and branching plot, interactive novels being script-wise, in the same group as branching plot -- what games are there that are more complicated than that?
Unless he wants to work in the field of porn videogames, which also suffers from a lack of quality writing.
Actually, you'd be surprised: In Japan, the genre of "interactive erotic novel" is vast and surprisingly high quality; many of the stories being good enough to be popular even when the "interactive" and "erotic" parts get stripped out for TV or other media~
(Though I will concede that I have yet to see an original english language game that didn't suck :( )
Should a fly try to fly, would it end up hitting it's head in an attempt to counteract gravity?
Your post even less so; but mine has the redeeming feature of being good advice, which oddly enough, was it's intent :-)
Like "is the game worth actually spending money on?" is one variable that leaps to mind.
If it's so terrible it's not worth paying for, why download it? :-P
Smile at someone as you walk past. Have a conversation with a stranger at a bus stop. For more hardcore players, try volunteer work at a local charity.
I was unable to play Deux Ex because I managed to get one of the few releases which came with DRM, and it refused to acknowledge the existance of my CD drive -- replacing the .exe with the one from the free and un-DRM'ed demo, everything works fine. I assume demos now come with DRM to stop this~
that they're already proficient in filesystem design? :P
Do they have computers to try out what they're learning as they do so? If not, then learning practical things will be very hard; maths / logic / other general purpose theory might be more use (though without the ability to implement, "more use" might not be very much either...)
Has there been a new game in the same genre as Deus Ex with even 90% of its awesomeness?
For background playing my whole collection on shuffle I use xmms2, for navigating / tagging / etc I use quod libet -- it has the best search feature I've seen anywhere (in the album view, you can filter out albums with fewer than X number of songs \o/), and laughs at my puny 10,000 song collection :P (wtf at the other replies of "I have 300 songs and it works ok" o_O)
It's still not quite as simple and scalable as foobar on windows though...
but who wants to learn a bunch of obscure commands and meta-keystrokes? If you just need to edit some text, there are simpler solutions
Why learn to cook when you can eat at McDonald's for every meal? :P
Can we get some photos? I want to see this in action :-)
rainbow tables require you to pre-know (or at least calculate) all possible values; thus it works ok for dictionary words (easy to know) and short alphanumeric strings (easy to generate), but generating a set of tables which contain every possible domain name would take an un-usefully long time.
I can't live without svn. Svn is a revision control repository, usually used for source code. What makes it really powerful is that you can _easily_ have a history of everything that has changed in a file and when
Git does the same, but is faster, and no dependency on an external repository \o/
I'm no mathematician, but I think that all knots (in the traditional definition, ie one string with two ends) can be undone in theory by taking one end and using the string as a path, feeding the end back along its own route; in practice, friction is a problem~
if they think, Java is appropriate for mobile devices
The java mobile stack is very different to the standard stack, like the only thing it has in common being the .class file format; Python (AFAIK) only has the PC-optimised version (as well as java and .net implementations, but they're also PC-optimised...)
On Windows, it used to be the same steps for over 10 years. Right click -> Properties -> Share is all it takes, also making SMB shares just takes similar steps. On Linux? Will take another good hours to work with Samba...
Are you sure about that? A couple of years ago someone made this argument, so I checked for myself, and found that nautilus has right click -> share; it took one less click than windows and supported more protocols (webdav and ftp spring to mind). I would think it strange if they've removed a feature which used to work o_O
Perhaps relevant: I didn't know about this feature until I looked for it, I'd always seen the files in /etc/ and assumed that that was the only way, since people keep going on about how hard linux is to configure. Similarly I've seen a few people install things like ubuntu then compile any extra packages from source, because "on linux you need to compile everything from source". Old memes need to die :-(
$X = $A.$B Is a parse error
Nope, it's taking the value of the variable who's name is stored in $B out of the $A namespace. Also, lots of code already uses "string"."another string" (no space between) for concatenation -- with . being used for namespaces, this would try and fetch the variable named "another string" from the "string" namespace...