Are you sure these people understood the questions? Maybe they thought the survey takers were asking something more like "Do you think people should post other people's personal information in a blog?" Or perhaps, "Would you post other people's personal information in a blog?" Or even, "Would you like a cookie?"
There's a lot that could be done with gravity, actually. Like gravity toward (or away from) a point source, or multiple point sources. Imagine having gravity point away from a point in the middle of a hollow sphere, at some intensity that rose as you got farther from the sphere? In the middle, you would be nearly weightless, and out the outside you'd be running around in a kind of space station type atmosphere. Hell, chop most of that sphere out and you'd have a space station. Do the same thing with gravity the opposite way, and you could be fighting on a asteroid instead of a boring flat surface.
But I don't think these count as innovations in the same way that true 3d (quake and the like) counts as an innovation.
The sad thing is, there's not much left that can be done with an FPS other than increase the graphics, level size, number of players/monsters, and fiddle with controls and play styles. It's just the way it is. I mean, can you think of anything cool to make an FPS that isn't just a rehash of something already out there? If you can't, what makes you think someone else can? It doesn't help that most of the boring, tired, formulatic FPSes are selling (because, really, what would you rather play tonight, Doom2 with a friend over a null modem or a 32 player game of UT2K4 over broadband?) I know that I buy them. If it wasn't for Grand Theft Auto, every video game purchase I've made in the past 3 years would be FPSes.
Not that command (I used the package manager thing) rendered my laptop unbootable. Well, I could still log in, but it was non-gui. I could have figured it out, I'm sure, but it didn't "just work" and I'm at least moderately sure the kubuntu cd will (as nothing is on the laptop anyway except broken versions of x, gnome, and kde, what's to lose by reinstalling from scratch?)
That's not true. I used to work nights, and during the daylight hours before work I did plenty of stuff. Now I work days, but still get up (now quite early) to walk the dog because I'm used to it.
Why not abolish it? Seriously, Daylight Savings is the biggest PITA. Either half of your company is late to work or half of them are early and won't get paid for that hour they're sitting around. Then they stand around talking to those of us who are on work on time, wasting our productivity.
For example, imagine you're scheduled for a minor surgery and instead of 'doping you up fairly good', they simply simulate a nice walk on the beach, a fishing trip or otherwise.
Yeah, and then the power flickers and you spend 3 seconds in searing pain stairing at a spotlight as they're putting your nose back on, before going back into the VR equivalent of the OS loader.
Actually, I almost modded you a troll to lower your ranking below 0 so your "homepage" link would stop screwing up my 80-column display. Instead, I was nice and loaded up IE instead of the terminal I had been using.
The problem isn't that they're quashing competition, it's that the worldwide demand for pinball machines is 10,000. Think about it. Would you want to devote all the time, money, and resources into building a company that will only produce 5,000 units a year?
You've been moderated troll and posted anonymously anyway, but you bring up a point: I am quite good with computers. I have 3 of them running in my house, including a Debian webserver that gets all inbound traffic (which is one of the reasons, I bet, that my home network is so secure). All the problems weren't with me, they were with the default install of the service pack. Were I not computer literate, I would not have been able to fix them. However, my choice is to not deal with crappy software, so I uninstalled it instead.
If it becomes mandatory, then my so-far not so bad install of Windows XP will become shoddy software, and I will do without it as well.
Personally, I installed it when it first came out, and it screwed up my network settings, disabled my network card, turned on its own firewall (I have my own, thank you very much), complained a storm when I disabled said firewall, and then to top it off I started hearing about people getting blue screens and problems with software (some of which I use).
Now, if this were any other piece of software, I would have uninstalled it in a second, and so would you. The hassles are far greater than the benefits (I see none, actually, considering I get no popups, spyware, or viruses and haven't in years) and it just seems like shoddy workmanship.
So I uninstalled it. If Microsoft ever tries to force it down my throat again I'm dropping Windows altogether, games support in Linux be damned.
Actually, I am a content provider, but I don't have a multibillion dollar render farm. If I did, though, and I made back all my profits on the theater run (Like pixar does) I see no reason why charging for distribution only would be a problem.
But, if I was a corporation, maybe I wouldn't se it that way as I would be money-grubbing.
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They're starting filming of Duke Nukem Forever in Ocbober as well!
Are you sure these people understood the questions? Maybe they thought the survey takers were asking something more like "Do you think people should post other people's personal information in a blog?" Or perhaps, "Would you post other people's personal information in a blog?" Or even, "Would you like a cookie?"
People are generally stupid, after all.
Don't you mean: Gordon Moore: Moore's Law is still alive
He helpfully explains, however, that the law will hold for a few years yet.
"All the rest is just FUDD that programmers worry about."
:-)
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, and... what... more Doubt?
Hah! I was thinking the same thing. Also, are the programmers worring about Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt?
FUD, you keep using that acronym. I do not think it means what you think it means.
</inigo>
There's a lot that could be done with gravity, actually. Like gravity toward (or away from) a point source, or multiple point sources. Imagine having gravity point away from a point in the middle of a hollow sphere, at some intensity that rose as you got farther from the sphere? In the middle, you would be nearly weightless, and out the outside you'd be running around in a kind of space station type atmosphere. Hell, chop most of that sphere out and you'd have a space station.
Do the same thing with gravity the opposite way, and you could be fighting on a asteroid instead of a boring flat surface.
But I don't think these count as innovations in the same way that true 3d (quake and the like) counts as an innovation.
The sad thing is, there's not much left that can be done with an FPS other than increase the graphics, level size, number of players/monsters, and fiddle with controls and play styles. It's just the way it is. I mean, can you think of anything cool to make an FPS that isn't just a rehash of something already out there? If you can't, what makes you think someone else can?
It doesn't help that most of the boring, tired, formulatic FPSes are selling (because, really, what would you rather play tonight, Doom2 with a friend over a null modem or a 32 player game of UT2K4 over broadband?) I know that I buy them. If it wasn't for Grand Theft Auto, every video game purchase I've made in the past 3 years would be FPSes.
...how many years can we have that contain UT2004, Doom 3, Painkiller, and Half-Life 2?
One?
Or, to be even more pedantic, all of them after 2004?
WTF does the entertainment industry think it has the right to tell any other business how to run their operations? Who died and left them in charge?
Uncle Sam.
Not that command (I used the package manager thing) rendered my laptop unbootable. Well, I could still log in, but it was non-gui. I could have figured it out, I'm sure, but it didn't "just work" and I'm at least moderately sure the kubuntu cd will (as nothing is on the laptop anyway except broken versions of x, gnome, and kde, what's to lose by reinstalling from scratch?)
And to remove Gnome? I don't want it lying around as this laptop isn't swimming in drive space.
(from tfa, so not exactly off topic)
Ubuntu today also released Kubuntu 5.04, which is a KDE 3.4 version of Ubuntu.
Great! Now I won't have to painfully rip Gnome out of and install KDE in to the install of Ubuntu on my laptop that's too old to gracefully run Gnome.
(Sorry Debian, Ubuntu rocks)
Try the second link (New Year's Eve)
Or, if you mean you want a list of stuff with Vatican Buzz in it... Yeah, that'd be cool.
...this cockroach-type thing crawled out from under the Z key.
/so/ cleaning my keyboard when I get home.
I am
...research noted that there is a lot of computer use in hospitals...
I wonder how much grant money they got for that one.
That's not true. I used to work nights, and during the daylight hours before work I did plenty of stuff. Now I work days, but still get up (now quite early) to walk the dog because I'm used to it.
Why not abolish it?
Seriously, Daylight Savings is the biggest PITA. Either half of your company is late to work or half of them are early and won't get paid for that hour they're sitting around. Then they stand around talking to those of us who are on work on time, wasting our productivity.
I read slashdot in unthreaded mode and even /I/ knew what he was talking about. Hint: He doesn't actally carry a TV around with him everywhere he goes.
This will never work, because you can't talk on the phone in ALL CAPS.
For example, imagine you're scheduled for a minor surgery and instead of 'doping you up fairly good', they simply simulate a nice walk on the beach, a fishing trip or otherwise.
Yeah, and then the power flickers and you spend 3 seconds in searing pain stairing at a spotlight as they're putting your nose back on, before going back into the VR equivalent of the OS loader.
I'll take the drugs, please.
Actually, I almost modded you a troll to lower your ranking below 0 so your "homepage" link would stop screwing up my 80-column display. Instead, I was nice and loaded up IE instead of the terminal I had been using.
The problem isn't that they're quashing competition, it's that the worldwide demand for pinball machines is 10,000.
Think about it. Would you want to devote all the time, money, and resources into building a company that will only produce 5,000 units a year?
You've been moderated troll and posted anonymously anyway, but you bring up a point: I am quite good with computers. I have 3 of them running in my house, including a Debian webserver that gets all inbound traffic (which is one of the reasons, I bet, that my home network is so secure).
All the problems weren't with me, they were with the default install of the service pack. Were I not computer literate, I would not have been able to fix them. However, my choice is to not deal with crappy software, so I uninstalled it instead.
If it becomes mandatory, then my so-far not so bad install of Windows XP will become shoddy software, and I will do without it as well.
Personally, I installed it when it first came out, and it screwed up my network settings, disabled my network card, turned on its own firewall (I have my own, thank you very much), complained a storm when I disabled said firewall, and then to top it off I started hearing about people getting blue screens and problems with software (some of which I use).
Now, if this were any other piece of software, I would have uninstalled it in a second, and so would you. The hassles are far greater than the benefits (I see none, actually, considering I get no popups, spyware, or viruses and haven't in years) and it just seems like shoddy workmanship.
So I uninstalled it. If Microsoft ever tries to force it down my throat again I'm dropping Windows altogether, games support in Linux be damned.
Is the city monitoring the traffic to prevent kids under the age of 18 from viewing illicit material?
You misread the article, they said Ohio, not Utah.
Actually, I am a content provider, but I don't have a multibillion dollar render farm. If I did, though, and I made back all my profits on the theater run (Like pixar does) I see no reason why charging for distribution only would be a problem.
But, if I was a corporation, maybe I wouldn't se it that way as I would be money-grubbing.