Its just everyquest with star wars races. Seriously!
Not according to the review:
"But this isn't about EQ. How is the content of SWG? Considering that SWG is made by the same company, I'm very surprised to say that, so far, I cannot say a thing about content. I have yet to find anything similar to the great, classic, EQ zones and dungeons.
In fact, I can't find much that you'd call "content" at all at this point. There are beautiful cities, and wide areas of wilderness where animals spawn randomly near their lairs, which also spawn randomly. (In other words, there is a lot of random hunting in the wilds.) I can''''t find any camps to hunt, baddies to wipe out, or places where cool loot drops. None.
Now, it IS possible that I'm missing it. I'm a pole arm-using brawler, and I'm at "master" level. I'd say that I'm about the equivalent of a 15th or 20th level character in EQ, or a comparable game. My buddies are the same level as I am. No one -- not one person -- has yet do discover any cool hunting spots, sci-fi dungeons, or anything you'd call content in the classic sense. We are all doing the same thing we were doing on day one -- getting missions, finding the lair, killing the critters, and destroying their home. We are the most ruthless and efficient exterminators I know. But is there a little something lacking here, or is it me?
Overall score for content: Zero. And this is from the company that brought us EQ, the game that had more content than any other three games in history. What the heck is going on?"
As soon as we all have 50mpbs 802X connections and, anonymous P2P software. This kind of question will never be asked.
With 100 gig hds, and reliable high speed connectivity 24/7. It's pretty easy to see what could be built from that.
Someone wants to download the new 150mb CS or BF1942 upgrade? Just enter the name of the file, select it...and the P2P software does the rest. Initiating multiple downloads from about 20 or so nodes in parallel. Then you just glue the program together once you have downloaded all the pieces.
Mirroring is such a hack, and dynamic bandwidth is the last gasp of the client-server paradigm. Let's move on.
Because you could make a cool game with the licensed engine and make a ton of money.
Sorry but this just doesn't make any sense at all. $50,000 is pretty nice prize money for a few hobbiests who love to mod, that part is fine, but why encourage modding at all if you're just going to tie everyone's arms behind thier backs with a licensing scheme?
"...and prizes include over $1,000,000 in total, with first prize $50,000 and a $350,000-value commercial Unreal Engine license."
Lame.
Counter-strike and TFC weren't elected by "professional" judges. Nor were these mods successful overnight. Actually I don't think anyone really knows why CS in particular is so popular. There's really no way to predict success like that. That's one of the many beauties of modding. It's like pure evolution, people get to sample hundreds of different things, and maybe one or two of those things brings gaming to the lext level.
This contest may promote technical innovation, and it may even end up creating a decent game. But this is not the way to re-create the magic that brought us CS.
What: Aliens, 3hr directors cut(commercial free, and uncensored) Where: Encore channel, check your listings.
I've been wanting to see the full version of the film for years, but never had the opportunity. Just saw it tonite for the first time on cable. Some elements of the 3hr version are pretty cool, like the sentry guns. But I appreciate the editing of the theatre version more for having seen what they left out. Anyway check out the Encore channel, they'll probably show it again.
You probably thought you were being funny. Actually, if such a device can pump in enough energy to produce a beam which can cut then you'd be partway there. The hard part is making the beam end, which perhaps could be achieved with a surrounding out-of-phase beam focused to intersect a yard or so away. Both beams would be similar in power, and from the outside would look like one beam.
You're right of course. I was dumb enough to download the whole thing without reading the fine print(only have a ti4200).
On that note, would anyone mind converting this vid. to mpeg? All that fancy hardware FX, DX9 stuff is great...but ultimately it's still just a movie. 30 frames per second, and some standard of resolution and pixel depth. So could someone do this, and maybe link an FTP download?
I'd just like to see the demo...cause it...looks nice:)
Myanmar is ruled by a repressive, brutal and notoriously paranoid military junta. In a nutshell, "they no like internet".
Yes it's true. I travelled through Myanmar(aka Burma) for several weeks, and the parent poster is right on.
One thing that I found really interesting, there were only 2 places in the country where I could use my credit card. The national bank in rangoon, and mandalay. That's right, 2 places in the entire country that accept credit cards in order to withdraw funds. Not exactly the most modern of countries.
I stayed with a group of buddhist monks for a week, and they were absolutely astounded when I showed them a US dollar. US currency is outlawed there, as the government controls exchange and tourism. Kinda creepy, rough place to live.
Wonder when the local collage will be offering "Open-Source Psychology 101"...
Here I'll save you the trip:
Fame! I'm gonna live forever. I'm gonna learn how to fly, High! I feel it coming together, People will see me and cry Fame! I'm going to make it to heaven, Light up the sky like a flame, Fame! I'm gonna live forever, Baby remember my name, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember.
Fame! I'm gonna live forever, Baby remember my name, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember.
Show me one case of someone dying because of lack of healthcare..just one.
Here's a story for you.
My father just build a new home, and he hired two dutch brothers to do some of the carpentry work. They had been in the US about 6 months, and were here to work, have fun etc.
One of the guys was using a circular saw and it caught an edge, which whipped the saw down and nearly cut this guy's thumb off. He was taken to the hospital, and treated. He's now been working 3 years, and all of his money goes toward food, rent...and paying his hospital debt.
Nothing like this could have ever happened in Holland, where he grew up. Now he's an indentured servant in the US, working to pay for having his thumb fixed. It may be several more years before he's clear of his debt.
The vast majority of these tax cuts go to the rich. The poor see almost nothing, as do the middle class. These are the segments of the population that buy diapers, and cars, and microwaves, and refrigerators. How many refrigerators does a rich guy need? One, ok maybe two. The size of his cut could buy 1000 refrigerators...but it'll end up going toward a vacation in Geneva instead.
Many computer professionals are conservative/Republican not because they are saying "Heil Hitler!" but because they choose to be, and realize that rapid industrial growth is the only thing keeping technology from going stagnant.
What's the point of "rapid industrial growth" if noone can afford to buy anything? I think we'll all agree that domestic spending is the keystone of our economy. So how do unemployed, underemployed, and indepted people contribute? Henry Ford was smart enough to pay his workers well enough so that they could afford to buy a car. Do you see CEOs doing that today?
You've bought the republican nonsense hook, line, and sinker.
How can I blash Bush or Ashcroft for a bad law passed during Clinton's time as president?
No no, back up. In Clinton's days these laws were a lot like marijuana statutes. They were very rarely enforced, and when they were it ammounted to a slap on the wrist.
Now that George W. Orwell and friends are in charge, these laws have been convoluted into a completely different picture. Now any kind of intellectual curiousity is treated like a "bad taillight" in which a cop can harrass you for being what you are. Intellectuals, the middle-class, and computer professionals are the last demographic republicans want to hear from.
The internet is a threat to any regime whose existence depends on the falsification of information. The funny thing is, so many Slashdotters here claim to be republican. They're either scared shitless over losing thier jobs, so they say "hiel hitler!" I don't need healthcare, I like working 70 hrs a week, I like living with my parents. Or they are the.0001 percent of the population who are so smart that they don't have to worry about being fired. Sadly they've never had the chance to learn about compassion, or being human.
The new Matrix films in IMAX... whoa... oooh... ahh...
I don't know, personally I wish films like this were given a chance to breath first. Hollywood puts so much wieght into financial success at the box office, it's almost like insider trading now. Bet on the success of whichever movie has the best marketing crew, and you'll get good returns on your money.
When the matrix first came out, it had very little fanfare. The experience of seeing the film itself is what drove people to tell thier friends and families. Word of mouth has always been the sincere means of measuring the value of a movie. The best thing to do with a film like this is wait. Maybe it doesn't belong on an IMAX screen because it's not worth seeing period. Or maybe, it's even better than the original. There's no way to know.
1) Post 3 job openings in a job search web-ring which is used by 100,000+ job seekers.
2) Collate the 8,412 responses to the 3 job openings
3) Spend 3 weeks finding the 7,000 or so applicants that haven't been coding for at least 10 years.
4) Have a meeting of the minds, let your 10 or so engineers sift through the remaining 1,412 on a big round table. Allow them plenty of leaway to reject candidates they don't like for whatever reason.
5) Take the remaining 300 candidates and verify that they have engineering degrees, or have at least twice as much experience neccesary for the job.
6) 150 left, verify those references.
7) 34 left, time for those phone interviews.
8) 10 remaining, first round of interviews.
9) 6 now, second round of interviews.
10) Ask obscure technical questions and judge according to how much they squirm.
Slashdot Mirror
Did they move on to better things or ...
Well, they knew infecting the world with christianity was a lost cause...so they punted and now support the republican party.
Levitation lives!
And yes, this one does work in a vacuum.
Its just everyquest with star wars races. Seriously!
Not according to the review:
"But this isn't about EQ. How is the content of SWG? Considering that SWG is made by the same company, I'm very surprised to say that, so far, I cannot say a thing about content. I have yet to find anything similar to the great, classic, EQ zones and dungeons.
In fact, I can't find much that you'd call "content" at all at this point. There are beautiful cities, and wide areas of wilderness where animals spawn randomly near their lairs, which also spawn randomly. (In other words, there is a lot of random hunting in the wilds.) I can''''t find any camps to hunt, baddies to wipe out, or places where cool loot drops. None.
Now, it IS possible that I'm missing it. I'm a pole arm-using brawler, and I'm at "master" level. I'd say that I'm about the equivalent of a 15th or 20th level character in EQ, or a comparable game. My buddies are the same level as I am. No one -- not one person -- has yet do discover any cool hunting spots, sci-fi dungeons, or anything you'd call content in the classic sense. We are all doing the same thing we were doing on day one -- getting missions, finding the lair, killing the critters, and destroying their home. We are the most ruthless and efficient exterminators I know. But is there a little something lacking here, or is it me?
Overall score for content: Zero. And this is from the company that brought us EQ, the game that had more content than any other three games in history. What the heck is going on?"
lol
Agreed, from the intro:
...
There were crows for the usual crowd, like Terry Pratchet, Nail Gaiman, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, so on
*cough* Neil Gaiman
I don't know too many people named nail. Maybe I'm hanging out with the wrong crowd.
As soon as we all have 50mpbs 802X connections and, anonymous P2P software. This kind of question will never be asked.
With 100 gig hds, and reliable high speed connectivity 24/7. It's pretty easy to see what could be built from that.
Someone wants to download the new 150mb CS or BF1942 upgrade? Just enter the name of the file, select it...and the P2P software does the rest. Initiating multiple downloads from about 20 or so nodes in parallel. Then you just glue the program together once you have downloaded all the pieces.
Mirroring is such a hack, and dynamic bandwidth is the last gasp of the client-server paradigm. Let's move on.
George Bush takes advantage of himself?
Actually, old money employs people like Karl Rove to manipulate the naivety of George Bush, and thus, take advantage of the rest of us.
Actually in my experience compasses do in fact, fail.
Please elaborate.
Because you could make a cool game with the licensed engine and make a ton of money.
Sorry but this just doesn't make any sense at all. $50,000 is pretty nice prize money for a few hobbiests who love to mod, that part is fine, but why encourage modding at all if you're just going to tie everyone's arms behind thier backs with a licensing scheme?
"...and prizes include over $1,000,000 in total, with first prize $50,000 and a $350,000-value commercial Unreal Engine license."
Lame.
Counter-strike and TFC weren't elected by "professional" judges. Nor were these mods successful overnight. Actually I don't think anyone really knows why CS in particular is so popular. There's really no way to predict success like that. That's one of the many beauties of modding. It's like pure evolution, people get to sample hundreds of different things, and maybe one or two of those things brings gaming to the lext level.
This contest may promote technical innovation, and it may even end up creating a decent game. But this is not the way to re-create the magic that brought us CS.
"Game Over (man)...Game Over!"
For anyone who's interested:
What: Aliens, 3hr directors cut(commercial free, and uncensored)
Where: Encore channel, check your listings.
I've been wanting to see the full version of the film for years, but never had the opportunity. Just saw it tonite for the first time on cable. Some elements of the 3hr version are pretty cool, like the sentry guns. But I appreciate the editing of the theatre version more for having seen what they left out. Anyway check out the Encore channel, they'll probably show it again.
You probably thought you were being funny. Actually, if such a device can pump in enough energy to produce a beam which can cut then you'd be partway there. The hard part is making the beam end, which perhaps could be achieved with a surrounding out-of-phase beam focused to intersect a yard or so away. Both beams would be similar in power, and from the outside would look like one beam.
This is a good idea, mod this guy up.
I hope the no-sense-of-humor dingleberry who modded parent as a troll gets metamodded into oblivion.
Who is the more trollish? The troll, or the troll who lives like him?
You're right of course. I was dumb enough to download the whole thing without reading the fine print(only have a ti4200).
:)
On that note, would anyone mind converting this vid. to mpeg? All that fancy hardware FX, DX9 stuff is great...but ultimately it's still just a movie. 30 frames per second, and some standard of resolution and pixel depth. So could someone do this, and maybe link an FTP download?
I'd just like to see the demo...cause it...looks nice
I wonder if the Republican Guard will instinctively rally around Ms. Rosen? ;-)
Yes, but they will truly fear Chemical Valenti.
bringing cellular technology to the IP network, rather than the other way around.
Yes but what about all that dark fiber?
Myanmar is ruled by a repressive, brutal and notoriously paranoid military junta.
In a nutshell, "they no like internet".
Yes it's true. I travelled through Myanmar(aka Burma) for several weeks, and the parent poster is right on.
One thing that I found really interesting, there were only 2 places in the country where I could use my credit card. The national bank in rangoon, and mandalay. That's right, 2 places in the entire country that accept credit cards in order to withdraw funds. Not exactly the most modern of countries.
I stayed with a group of buddhist monks for a week, and they were absolutely astounded when I showed them a US dollar. US currency is outlawed there, as the government controls exchange and tourism. Kinda creepy, rough place to live.
Wonder when the local collage will be offering "Open-Source Psychology 101"...
Here I'll save you the trip:
Fame!
I'm gonna live forever.
I'm gonna learn how to fly,
High!
I feel it coming together,
People will see me and cry
Fame!
I'm going to make it to heaven,
Light up the sky like a flame,
Fame!
I'm gonna live forever,
Baby remember my name,
Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember.
Fame!
I'm gonna live forever,
Baby remember my name,
Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember.
Idiot.
Show me one case of someone dying because of lack of healthcare..just one.
Here's a story for you.
My father just build a new home, and he hired two dutch brothers to do some of the carpentry work. They had been in the US about 6 months, and were here to work, have fun etc.
One of the guys was using a circular saw and it caught an edge, which whipped the saw down and nearly cut this guy's thumb off. He was taken to the hospital, and treated. He's now been working 3 years, and all of his money goes toward food, rent...and paying his hospital debt.
Nothing like this could have ever happened in Holland, where he grew up. Now he's an indentured servant in the US, working to pay for having his thumb fixed. It may be several more years before he's clear of his debt.
Still think this is a civilized country?
You are misinformed.
The vast majority of these tax cuts go to the rich. The poor see almost nothing, as do the middle class. These are the segments of the population that buy diapers, and cars, and microwaves, and refrigerators. How many refrigerators does a rich guy need? One, ok maybe two. The size of his cut could buy 1000 refrigerators...but it'll end up going toward a vacation in Geneva instead.
Uh huh, mentioning professional accredations:
"Nobel Laureates, 450 other economists fault tax cuts plan"
Many computer professionals are conservative/Republican not because they are saying "Heil Hitler!" but because they choose to be, and realize that rapid industrial growth is the only thing keeping technology from going stagnant.
What's the point of "rapid industrial growth" if noone can afford to buy anything? I think we'll all agree that domestic spending is the keystone of our economy. So how do unemployed, underemployed, and indepted people contribute? Henry Ford was smart enough to pay his workers well enough so that they could afford to buy a car. Do you see CEOs doing that today?
You've bought the republican nonsense hook, line, and sinker.
What is worse saying "I'll pretend to believe this and do nothing about it" or "I'll follow the laws that are on the books regardless."?
Taking the phrase "common sense" out of the dictionary is the worst.
I hate to break it to you but the Federal Government was not supposed to guarantee anything close to free healthcare and mandated work weeks and wages
"A government for the people, by the people"
not
"A government for the forture 100 board of directors, screw the people"
How can I blash Bush or Ashcroft for a bad law passed during Clinton's time as president?
.0001 percent of the population who are so smart that they don't have to worry about being fired. Sadly they've never had the chance to learn about compassion, or being human.
No no, back up. In Clinton's days these laws were a lot like marijuana statutes. They were very rarely enforced, and when they were it ammounted to a slap on the wrist.
Now that George W. Orwell and friends are in charge, these laws have been convoluted into a completely different picture. Now any kind of intellectual curiousity is treated like a "bad taillight" in which a cop can harrass you for being what you are. Intellectuals, the middle-class, and computer professionals are the last demographic republicans want to hear from.
The internet is a threat to any regime whose existence depends on the falsification of information. The funny thing is, so many Slashdotters here claim to be republican. They're either scared shitless over losing thier jobs, so they say "hiel hitler!" I don't need healthcare, I like working 70 hrs a week, I like living with my parents. Or they are the
The new Matrix films, awesome...
The new Matrix films in IMAX... whoa... oooh... ahh...
I don't know, personally I wish films like this were given a chance to breath first. Hollywood puts so much wieght into financial success at the box office, it's almost like insider trading now. Bet on the success of whichever movie has the best marketing crew, and you'll get good returns on your money.
When the matrix first came out, it had very little fanfare. The experience of seeing the film itself is what drove people to tell thier friends and families. Word of mouth has always been the sincere means of measuring the value of a movie. The best thing to do with a film like this is wait. Maybe it doesn't belong on an IMAX screen because it's not worth seeing period. Or maybe, it's even better than the original. There's no way to know.
Yes, these days it's best to do the following:
...
1) Post 3 job openings in a job search web-ring which is used by 100,000+ job seekers.
2) Collate the 8,412 responses to the 3 job openings
3) Spend 3 weeks finding the 7,000 or so applicants that haven't been coding for at least 10 years.
4) Have a meeting of the minds, let your 10 or so engineers sift through the remaining 1,412 on a big round table. Allow them plenty of leaway to reject candidates they don't like for whatever reason.
5) Take the remaining 300 candidates and verify that they have engineering degrees, or have at least twice as much experience neccesary for the job.
6) 150 left, verify those references.
7) 34 left, time for those phone interviews.
8) 10 remaining, first round of interviews.
9) 6 now, second round of interviews.
10) Ask obscure technical questions and judge according to how much they squirm.
11) Hire the 3 who squirm the least.
12)
13) Layoffs.