Wow, thats a pretty big statement. I heard the Battlecruiser games needed huge patches, Temple of Elemental Evil is going to need to be patched for playability, and there are countless other examples.
Personally, I wouldnt really be too worried about how a demo plays. Most of them are basically cobbled together anyway. Im saving my opinion for once the game is released.
in a way, its bad having so many great games coming out all the time. Before, several great games would come out, and be wildly successful by beating out all the crap other companies were putting out.
Now, however, very good games have a potential to do poorly, just because of lack of press/marketting, being released along with major blockbuster games, etc.
I think its sad when great games sell poorly, and it will probably be happening a lot more as the bar keeps getting raised higher. The main negative to this, that I can see, will be too many MOTS games, and sequelitis.
But then again, if they turn into bad games, it just makes room for something better... Weird times ahead.
I recently finished Halo on the PC. Am I the only one who was somewhat disappointed by the single-player story? The whole thing with "the flood" felt like somebody spilled Half-Life in my Halo.
Multiplayer is fantastic, however. Is this the first fps to do this great a job on vehicles?
I cant see the NSA giving information on ANYTHING they do internally; thats just good security.
I was reading something about them wanting to have completely separate OS's running in multiple instances (with no shared memory addresses) and separate networks, but on one machine. Never heard anything beyone the statement of what they were developing, however. It would be pretty interesting to see.
here it comes- gnome.org needs work done really bad, but the free people who are doing their work only want to address the fun stuff, like making another web browser. Perhaps 'free beer' open source can only get you so far, then you need to start offering some form of incentive.
Makes perfect sense to me. After all, if you are doing work for nothing, why the hell would anybody do the stuff which isnt fun or interesting?
Hopefully this will lead to people being able to convert quicktime movies into much better formats, especially ones which dont involve having to install QuickTime.
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Why does that whole scenario sound like having gay sex in a tollway rest stop?
New commercial: George Michael music in the background (maybe "I want your sex"), two effeminent men walk up next to each other in a park, touch hips, jack-in to each other's iPods, listen for a few, then just walk off.
I cant believe nobody used what I thought would be the simplist, best design: Just make a touch-screen that mimics the puchcard method already used. It can accept the paper ballot, you press your votes, it asks you to verify selections at the end, then punches the card for you. No dangling chads, no multiple punches, no problems. Even better, it retains the currently used method of tabulation (the punchcard readers).
The only 'feature' left out of that method would be being able to hack the centralized tabulation machine, so you can make all the voters in Dade county vote for somebody other than the front-running democrat. Oh wait, they dont need a program for that- never mind.
an iPod owner shares experiences he has had with other iPod owners, namely the plugging of his headphones into a stranger's jack. It began when a woman in her 30's walked up to him while he was on a walk, unplugged her headphone jack from her iPod, and motioned for him to plug his in. They then listened to each other's music for about 30 seconds. He has then shared with about a dozen iPod listeners, with most of the strangers reciprocating. According to the article, the practice has also cropped up in other communities. Listeners acquire tastes for different kinds of music, just like on internet/LAN file sharing networks. An interesting read.
Why does this stuff remind me of songs by George Michael?
"If you want to run a successful company, you gotta cook the books!"
With statements from former Enron execs, who also go over the benefits of plausible deniability, and Ken Lay who gives advice on stashing your ill-gotten booty in variable annuities and bribing the sons of presidents.
You may remember the old Crowther and Woods "Collosal Cave" Adventure game. Have you ever had a 'cannot get there from here' while trying to do a MS product reinstall. You can get that version of Exchange (for example) reinstalled on this version of NT but not another. You had to reinstall NT. Slowly, then reinstall Exchange starting with an earlier version and then cross patch each insequence so they weren't out of step. I have reduced my exposure to MS to a minimum now as a result.
I have no idea what you are talking about, and I have done disaster recovery on dozens of Exchange servers. Again, you are just spewing nonsense. Hopefully, nobody buys your bs; I know Im not.
Stick to the help desk; you can impress your users with your bs anecdotes.
He saves money by exepcting customers to patch
I guess Linux distros save money by expecting people to patch too... since every OS has security patches. Smells like somebody talking out of their ass? Oh ya, it sure does.
Great, but the guy is also selling to domestic users who don't have firewalls. By the time they have finished patching, they are owned. My systems are firewalled, but those owned systems are still hamnering away at my bandwidth before being thrown out.
Oh, I see. So MS should only sell to customers who can PROVE they own a firewall. Why stop there? Maybe they should only sell to people who hire MCSEs! They can also start restricting it to only selling to people who have virus scanners installed. Oh my goodness, your stupidity knows no bounds.
PS your help desk phone is ringing, go answer it instead of trolling slashdot.
Give me a break. Guns dont use wires or electronic parts. This weapon will do nothing to stop enemy combatants, so it isnt the 'peaceful' solution the poster cites it as.
All it is is another weapon in the arsenal. In fact, its one even the US Army chose not to use, since you have to repair all the damage done afterward. How expensive would it be to rewire a whole powerplant, hospital, or even house? Pretty expensive, thats for sure.
I guess you work for Microsoft or have negligable experience. Microsoft has its place by giving the least possible support. On the whole, I find their people ignorant, unfortunately of their own products which explains why their incompatible product lines continue to conduct battles on my servers.
You cant work in IT; stop bullshitting people. Either that, or you jockey a phone at the help desk and fix paper jams.
Also, your bullshit propaganda attempt is quite amusing. If you say he is abusing tax loopholes, cite a credible article or something. Otherwise, who cares about your crackpot conspiracy lies?
You guys crack me up. You all act like buying software from MS or anybody else is like killing kittens, raping children, selling crack, or strapping a bomb to your chest and blowing up a humvee.
Get a grip, people, its just an instruction set written for a specific purpose. Its not a mission from God.
Maybe they shouldn't be using computers anyway. A typewriter is much easier to use than Word (oh, never mind, you have to spell correctly... no squiggles when you 'mispell' a word), a notebook stores notes quite nicely. If you're *typesetting*, then a computer is essential, but for memos it is a waste. Computers are good at doing math. Computers are good for writing computer programs. That's what they're for. Quake and Word are bastrdizations of the microcontroller.
Actually, I recommend we issue each person an abacus, and clay tablets so they can just write in cuneiform. We can also replace our plumbing with wooly mamoths, and make our cars with two large round rocks connected by logs, which we power buy 'running' under our car.
Second, Apple was essentially looking for a government subsidy to supply computers, thus not making it really 'giving', but more like making Uncle Sam pay for it.
Third, beware vague, half remembered stories from Anonymous posters.
How nice, a company is looking to turn other peoples windfall into their own benefit!
In the spirit of this generosity, I will be providing the same service for winning Lottery tickets. I will gladly turn your winning lottery tickets into computer/electronic hardware.
Specifically, I will be using it for a 60-inch plasma TV, a really nice PVR, a surround sound system, a huge flat-panel monitor, and a fully decked-out Shuttle XPC system!!
Its gonna be sweet! So, be sure to send me those tickets!
One of the big problems in the USA is that nuclear power was, at one time, such a hot-key non-issue. People might want to have electricity, but they dont want a nuke plant in THEIR neighborhood (its like prison- NIMBY).
Another is how much influence the coal/oil industry still holds in this country. Coal power is SUCH a bad option, its amazing any modern society is still using it as much as America is. Its bad for the environment, its highly inefficient, and its bad for the environment. Its also really bad for the environment!
Oil is likewise a poor option when compared to nuke plants, both in terms of efficiency and polltion. Modern nuke plants are amazingly safe, and produce comparitively little waste. But, that leads into another NIMBY problem of where to dispose of that nuke waste!
Ive noticed that, for the most part, analysts are a pretty sharp bunch. They see the ins and outs of things pretty well.
People can cite the tech bubble as a contrary opinion, but IMO there were many factors at play, from payola, to mass hysteria, to unchecked optimism, to 'book-cooking' in order to fool analysts.
Anyway, its nice to see this kind of level-headed advice in print. All the lawsuits and stuff are sure to cause the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that SCO can profit from, so when a prominent publication says "be cool, all is well, and be sure to plan for the future", it is a perfect foil to the FUD.
Hopefully SCO will just go the way of Rambus, and be have a future as nothing more than old tech guy trivia.
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Personally, I wouldnt really be too worried about how a demo plays. Most of them are basically cobbled together anyway. Im saving my opinion for once the game is released.
Never, ever, ever buy an MX card. Hindsight is great, of course, but you would have been better off getting a GF3.
Now, however, very good games have a potential to do poorly, just because of lack of press/marketting, being released along with major blockbuster games, etc.
I think its sad when great games sell poorly, and it will probably be happening a lot more as the bar keeps getting raised higher. The main negative to this, that I can see, will be too many MOTS games, and sequelitis.
But then again, if they turn into bad games, it just makes room for something better... Weird times ahead.
Multiplayer is fantastic, however. Is this the first fps to do this great a job on vehicles?
Does John Romero win the award for hottest chick in gaming?
I was reading something about them wanting to have completely separate OS's running in multiple instances (with no shared memory addresses) and separate networks, but on one machine. Never heard anything beyone the statement of what they were developing, however. It would be pretty interesting to see.
Makes perfect sense to me. After all, if you are doing work for nothing, why the hell would anybody do the stuff which isnt fun or interesting?
Hopefully this will lead to people being able to convert quicktime movies into much better formats, especially ones which dont involve having to install QuickTime.
New commercial: George Michael music in the background (maybe "I want your sex"), two effeminent men walk up next to each other in a park, touch hips, jack-in to each other's iPods, listen for a few, then just walk off.
PERFECT.
The only 'feature' left out of that method would be being able to hack the centralized tabulation machine, so you can make all the voters in Dade county vote for somebody other than the front-running democrat. Oh wait, they dont need a program for that- never mind.
Was he using an iBook?
Everything we send to Mars disappears. Im starting to get scared...
Why does this stuff remind me of songs by George Michael?
With statements from former Enron execs, who also go over the benefits of plausible deniability, and Ken Lay who gives advice on stashing your ill-gotten booty in variable annuities and bribing the sons of presidents.
I have no idea what you are talking about, and I have done disaster recovery on dozens of Exchange servers. Again, you are just spewing nonsense. Hopefully, nobody buys your bs; I know Im not.
Stick to the help desk; you can impress your users with your bs anecdotes.
He saves money by exepcting customers to patch
I guess Linux distros save money by expecting people to patch too... since every OS has security patches. Smells like somebody talking out of their ass? Oh ya, it sure does.
Great, but the guy is also selling to domestic users who don't have firewalls. By the time they have finished patching, they are owned. My systems are firewalled, but those owned systems are still hamnering away at my bandwidth before being thrown out.
Oh, I see. So MS should only sell to customers who can PROVE they own a firewall. Why stop there? Maybe they should only sell to people who hire MCSEs! They can also start restricting it to only selling to people who have virus scanners installed. Oh my goodness, your stupidity knows no bounds.
PS your help desk phone is ringing, go answer it instead of trolling slashdot.
This didnt really happen, because Linux is so secure it puts Windows to shame!
All it is is another weapon in the arsenal. In fact, its one even the US Army chose not to use, since you have to repair all the damage done afterward. How expensive would it be to rewire a whole powerplant, hospital, or even house? Pretty expensive, thats for sure.
Even Kobe know that "No" doesnt really mean "No"!!
You cant work in IT; stop bullshitting people. Either that, or you jockey a phone at the help desk and fix paper jams.
Also, your bullshit propaganda attempt is quite amusing. If you say he is abusing tax loopholes, cite a credible article or something. Otherwise, who cares about your crackpot conspiracy lies?
Get a grip, people, its just an instruction set written for a specific purpose. Its not a mission from God.
Actually, I recommend we issue each person an abacus, and clay tablets so they can just write in cuneiform. We can also replace our plumbing with wooly mamoths, and make our cars with two large round rocks connected by logs, which we power buy 'running' under our car.
WILMA!!!!
Second, Apple was essentially looking for a government subsidy to supply computers, thus not making it really 'giving', but more like making Uncle Sam pay for it.
Third, beware vague, half remembered stories from Anonymous posters.
In the spirit of this generosity, I will be providing the same service for winning Lottery tickets. I will gladly turn your winning lottery tickets into computer/electronic hardware.
Specifically, I will be using it for a 60-inch plasma TV, a really nice PVR, a surround sound system, a huge flat-panel monitor, and a fully decked-out Shuttle XPC system!!
Its gonna be sweet! So, be sure to send me those tickets!
Another is how much influence the coal/oil industry still holds in this country. Coal power is SUCH a bad option, its amazing any modern society is still using it as much as America is. Its bad for the environment, its highly inefficient, and its bad for the environment. Its also really bad for the environment!
Oil is likewise a poor option when compared to nuke plants, both in terms of efficiency and polltion. Modern nuke plants are amazingly safe, and produce comparitively little waste. But, that leads into another NIMBY problem of where to dispose of that nuke waste!
People can cite the tech bubble as a contrary opinion, but IMO there were many factors at play, from payola, to mass hysteria, to unchecked optimism, to 'book-cooking' in order to fool analysts.
Anyway, its nice to see this kind of level-headed advice in print. All the lawsuits and stuff are sure to cause the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that SCO can profit from, so when a prominent publication says "be cool, all is well, and be sure to plan for the future", it is a perfect foil to the FUD.
Hopefully SCO will just go the way of Rambus, and be have a future as nothing more than old tech guy trivia.