I download plenty of things that I did not pay for, but I don't try to rationalize my actions with bullshit arguments about 'rights'. What I'm doing is illegal, and possibly immoral. When I speed, I don't get angry at the cop for pulling me over, I knew I was doing something illegal, did it anyway, and got caught.
I may feel that some of the specifics of the speeding laws are off-base, I may feel that some streets have the wrong minimum speeds, but that doesn't mean that I feel that we should tear the whole concept of speeding violations down. Just as I feel that lengths of copyrights, and who can own them and what can be done with them might be wrong, but I still see the good in them (protecting people who make their living by their ideas).
I know very little about freeciv and how similar it is to Civilization, but the fact that Meier and company has not gone after what might be a similar trademark violation as FreeCraft is does not make what Blizzard is doing *wrong*. (If my mailbox gets stolen, and my neighbor's does too, just because I decide not to persue the case doesn't mean he's wrong if he does).
I hear you, I loved those games as well, even the much-maligned dream levels of Max Payne (although I hated running along those... blood trails? and falling off every few steps).
Similar story about 'getting really into' a game: I was in the levels right before the final boss in Half-Life, completely immersed in the game, it was way late at night, sound up, lights out, quiet house... I get the last guy, he rears up in front of me, all like, ten stories of him, my jaw drops, and BOOM! the power goes out. I think I sat in the total darkness for a full minute, shaking with the stupid idea that the monster from the *game* somehow had turned off my power.
Now, I don't know if that qualifies as art, but it sure was one hell of a gaming experience.
Oh, and if you wanted to know the name of that song in the begining and on level 3 of Homeworld, it's Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.
Shit, sorry to respond to my own post, but I should have read your post better... I agree with you that games are like movies in the 'art' department, most barely qualify for the 'art' label, others are put together with alot more emotion, feeling, and depth by the creators.
I think this is a bit of semantics... sure programming is *an* art... as in it takes more than just skill to do it well, maybe a bit of intuition, whatever... but is it *art*... I don't know, I think there are probably good arguments both ways.
The same thing is true for games. Game making is certainly an art to a degree, just look at what Shigueru Miyamoto (sp?) can do that so few others can... but is it *art*?
I second Planescape: Torment as an example of how close games have come to art so far. Too bad I never finished it, I probably should drag it out from somewhere and... aw, shit, there goes my weekend =)
Hey, I find a well-rendered explosion or the graceful arc of blood spraying from a flesh-eating zombie to be a very powerful statement of man's... um... insignificance in the face of the world's indifference... um
Alright, did anybody else cry when then got to the third level of Homeworld by Relic? You know, the one where um... something bad happens.. (no spoilers wanted).
Alright, I didn't actually cry, but for some reason it affected me alot more than most of those 'tearjerker' movies out there. Maybe I was just starting to really 'get into' what turned out to be a really awesome game.
And they must be pretty big too, considering that they know all those great tricks and products that they keep telling me about...
But really, you bring up something I've been wondering about for a while now... who buys this stuff? I don't think I've ever heard of someone actually buying something from a spammer -- and I know quite a few nearly computer illiterate people -- yet I keep on hearing about how lucrative the spam business is.
Yes, it's worth a minor laugh but will it really make people want to buy the game? Most likely not. Probably will turn a bunch of people off from buying it.
I don't know about that. If they actually did this, I could imagine it turning people off, but just hearing about it makes one think "Well, that's wacky. I wonder if this Vitua Tennis thing is any good."
In fact, if I cared about tennis at all, I might go and look at some reviews of this game right now. Of course, I won't, because I really only care about games with guns, cars, and innocent bystanders.;)
My friend worked at a lab in Princeton modeling the inside of a reactor. He worked with a 32 node linux cluster and did all the graphics modeling using a modified version of Unreal Tournament.
Sweet. So did the reactor use the shock rifle alt-fire to start up or something?;)
But more on topic, I think you're right about the size of the market. About how many big clusters are there out there anyway?
The smart thing would be if the 300-ft limit was not hardcoded, but depended on the speed you were traveling. 300 ft seems somewhat reasonable if you're going 80 on the freeway, but really dumb when you're crusing at 30 on residential streets.(actually, I still don't think most people give nearly that much room between cars on the highway, but they give more).
While I agree that this disease has been misdiagnosed many times for what are normal actions in children, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I can remember very clearly being in those 'boring' classes you speak of and somehow, all of my peers were able to at least fake seeming interested. As for me, there's a difference between getting "distracted by something that is happening outside the window" and literally not being able to sit still. Now matter how much I wanted to finish my schoolwork -- and my god, I did, I was near failing some classes, and I like learning -- there was absolutely no way it was going to get done unless after hours upon hours of wasted time, histronics, hair pulling, and rushing to get it (shoddily) done.
Then I took Ritalin, and I got better. Placebo effect? I didn't believe in the shit for a second. I thought it was just some dumb drug my parents were forcing on me so they could forget about the problem. But it worked.
Now, there have been many cases when a ADHD diagnosis has been unwarrented, but for every 10 kids you see getting Ritalin (or other drugs) who don't need it, there's one who really fucking does.
Dude, this whole question is about adult ADHD... are you saying that adults shouldn't be asked to sit still and work for hours during the middle of the day. ADHD is not a "disorder", it's a disorder.
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Mod this man up.
I'm intrigued that you admitted to your boss that you have ADHD. I've never told anyone other than close friends, and just let other people try to figure out why I have occaisional mood swings and difficulty focusing. How did it work out? How did he/she treat you?
I've always found that so few people understand this disease (as evidenced by all the lame jokes on this forum) that it's always better to keep it under wraps than try to explain the whole thing (it REALLY bugs me when peole tell me "Oh, you probably were misdiagnosed")
Alright, to answer your *Question*
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I have ADHD.
To get some of the usual responses out of the way: Yes, kids/people get misdiagnosed all the time, but I don't care, because I wasn't. I've had to deal with this for years, and I can say that, at least for me, Ritalin has been a life-saver. I expected to not need it anymore when I became an adult, but it still gets me more focused than anything else.
I have not tried anything else, as Ritalin works fine for me, but yeah, feel free to experiment. ADHD is an incredibly inconsistant disease for me, somedays I have no difficulty at all focusing on whatever task is at hand, other times I feel like I'm my own five-year old self, with as little control over my actions as my parents had over me. So I don't think I could really give a good test run of any other substance unless I took several days off from the Ritalin, and then if it doesn't work, those are several days when I've had a much worse time concentrating at work.
As for working with others, I've never told anybody that I have ADHD and nobody has ever told me. I don't have a particularly bad time working with others, actually the usually keep me much more on track than if I'm by myself.
Lastly, do object to having ADHD? Yeah, maybe, it's an irritating and sometimes challenging disease, but by now, I really don't think I'd be who I am, for better or for worse, with out it. =)
ADHD has been seen as that "boy's disease" or "just not growing up" (but I think it's really all the posters making "wait, what was I talking about, ooh, shiny things" jokes who haven't grown up), but it's a real disease that many adults have to cope with and do cope with. Welcome to the club, Famanoran, and good luck.
Couldn't this eat a little into the man-power savings (2 men instead of 15)? I mean, it'll take a couple of guys to operate the vacuum truck, I assume.
SPAM is the "processed meat product" manufactured by Hormel. Spam is unsolicited email (and text messaging now, I guess).
I've never had a single email spam to my phone email account, but I also never really use it (once emailed a friend who did have his phone on, but happened to be reading his email at that moment. Ah, technology!). As for text messaging, I don't have it, and see no point.
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Hear hear!
I download plenty of things that I did not pay for, but I don't try to rationalize my actions with bullshit arguments about 'rights'. What I'm doing is illegal, and possibly immoral. When I speed, I don't get angry at the cop for pulling me over, I knew I was doing something illegal, did it anyway, and got caught.
I may feel that some of the specifics of the speeding laws are off-base, I may feel that some streets have the wrong minimum speeds, but that doesn't mean that I feel that we should tear the whole concept of speeding violations down. Just as I feel that lengths of copyrights, and who can own them and what can be done with them might be wrong, but I still see the good in them (protecting people who make their living by their ideas).
Gray Davis trading card, "Privacy Series". Mint condition. Best offer.
I love it when political groups pull off silly stunts to make a point. Politics grows more and more entertaining and less helpful everyday.
I know very little about freeciv and how similar it is to Civilization, but the fact that Meier and company has not gone after what might be a similar trademark violation as FreeCraft is does not make what Blizzard is doing *wrong*. (If my mailbox gets stolen, and my neighbor's does too, just because I decide not to persue the case doesn't mean he's wrong if he does).
I hear you, I loved those games as well, even the much-maligned dream levels of Max Payne (although I hated running along those... blood trails? and falling off every few steps).
Similar story about 'getting really into' a game: I was in the levels right before the final boss in Half-Life, completely immersed in the game, it was way late at night, sound up, lights out, quiet house... I get the last guy, he rears up in front of me, all like, ten stories of him, my jaw drops, and BOOM! the power goes out. I think I sat in the total darkness for a full minute, shaking with the stupid idea that the monster from the *game* somehow had turned off my power.
Now, I don't know if that qualifies as art, but it sure was one hell of a gaming experience.
Oh, and if you wanted to know the name of that song in the begining and on level 3 of Homeworld, it's Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.
Shit, sorry to respond to my own post, but I should have read your post better... I agree with you that games are like movies in the 'art' department, most barely qualify for the 'art' label, others are put together with alot more emotion, feeling, and depth by the creators.
I think this is a bit of semantics... sure programming is *an* art... as in it takes more than just skill to do it well, maybe a bit of intuition, whatever... but is it *art*... I don't know, I think there are probably good arguments both ways.
The same thing is true for games. Game making is certainly an art to a degree, just look at what Shigueru Miyamoto (sp?) can do that so few others can... but is it *art*?
I second Planescape: Torment as an example of how close games have come to art so far. Too bad I never finished it, I probably should drag it out from somewhere and... aw, shit, there goes my weekend =)
Hey, I find a well-rendered explosion or the graceful arc of blood spraying from a flesh-eating zombie to be a very powerful statement of man's... um... insignificance in the face of the world's indifference... um
Ah, hell, just give guns, cars, and innocent bystanders, I'll make my own art: six wanted stars with a chainsaw.
Alright, did anybody else cry when then got to the third level of Homeworld by Relic? You know, the one where um... something bad happens.. (no spoilers wanted).
Alright, I didn't actually cry, but for some reason it affected me alot more than most of those 'tearjerker' movies out there. Maybe I was just starting to really 'get into' what turned out to be a really awesome game.
Umm... I hope this didn't sound *too* pathetic...
And they must be pretty big too, considering that they know all those great tricks and products that they keep telling me about...
But really, you bring up something I've been wondering about for a while now... who buys this stuff? I don't think I've ever heard of someone actually buying something from a spammer -- and I know quite a few nearly computer illiterate people -- yet I keep on hearing about how lucrative the spam business is.
WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?
Yes, it's worth a minor laugh but will it really make people want to buy the game? Most likely not. Probably will turn a bunch of people off from buying it.
;)
I don't know about that. If they actually did this, I could imagine it turning people off, but just hearing about it makes one think "Well, that's wacky. I wonder if this Vitua Tennis thing is any good."
In fact, if I cared about tennis at all, I might go and look at some reviews of this game right now. Of course, I won't, because I really only care about games with guns, cars, and innocent bystanders.
My friend worked at a lab in Princeton modeling the inside of a reactor. He worked with a 32 node linux cluster and did all the graphics modeling using a modified version of Unreal Tournament.
;)
Sweet. So did the reactor use the shock rifle alt-fire to start up or something?
But more on topic, I think you're right about the size of the market. About how many big clusters are there out there anyway?
I'd start looking around for agents leaping at my car.
The smart thing would be if the 300-ft limit was not hardcoded, but depended on the speed you were traveling. 300 ft seems somewhat reasonable if you're going 80 on the freeway, but really dumb when you're crusing at 30 on residential streets.(actually, I still don't think most people give nearly that much room between cars on the highway, but they give more).
ah, no wonder I had no luck accessing http://www.skindex,net/ ;)
WTF does this mean? Vomiting up people you've entered into an alliance with?
Bizarre what lawyers think about people today... backstabbing cannibals?
While I agree that this disease has been misdiagnosed many times for what are normal actions in children, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I can remember very clearly being in those 'boring' classes you speak of and somehow, all of my peers were able to at least fake seeming interested. As for me, there's a difference between getting "distracted by something that is happening outside the window" and literally not being able to sit still. Now matter how much I wanted to finish my schoolwork -- and my god, I did, I was near failing some classes, and I like learning -- there was absolutely no way it was going to get done unless after hours upon hours of wasted time, histronics, hair pulling, and rushing to get it (shoddily) done.
Then I took Ritalin, and I got better. Placebo effect? I didn't believe in the shit for a second. I thought it was just some dumb drug my parents were forcing on me so they could forget about the problem. But it worked.
Now, there have been many cases when a ADHD diagnosis has been unwarrented, but for every 10 kids you see getting Ritalin (or other drugs) who don't need it, there's one who really fucking does.
That's interesting... maybe that's why I've never found caffine to have a significant effect on me (I take Ritalin).
Dude, this whole question is about adult ADHD... are you saying that adults shouldn't be asked to sit still and work for hours during the middle of the day. ADHD is not a "disorder", it's a disorder.
Mod this man up.
I'm intrigued that you admitted to your boss that you have ADHD. I've never told anyone other than close friends, and just let other people try to figure out why I have occaisional mood swings and difficulty focusing. How did it work out? How did he/she treat you?
I've always found that so few people understand this disease (as evidenced by all the lame jokes on this forum) that it's always better to keep it under wraps than try to explain the whole thing (it REALLY bugs me when peole tell me "Oh, you probably were misdiagnosed")
I have ADHD.
To get some of the usual responses out of the way: Yes, kids/people get misdiagnosed all the time, but I don't care, because I wasn't. I've had to deal with this for years, and I can say that, at least for me, Ritalin has been a life-saver. I expected to not need it anymore when I became an adult, but it still gets me more focused than anything else.
I have not tried anything else, as Ritalin works fine for me, but yeah, feel free to experiment. ADHD is an incredibly inconsistant disease for me, somedays I have no difficulty at all focusing on whatever task is at hand, other times I feel like I'm my own five-year old self, with as little control over my actions as my parents had over me. So I don't think I could really give a good test run of any other substance unless I took several days off from the Ritalin, and then if it doesn't work, those are several days when I've had a much worse time concentrating at work.
As for working with others, I've never told anybody that I have ADHD and nobody has ever told me. I don't have a particularly bad time working with others, actually the usually keep me much more on track than if I'm by myself.
Lastly, do object to having ADHD? Yeah, maybe, it's an irritating and sometimes challenging disease, but by now, I really don't think I'd be who I am, for better or for worse, with out it. =)
ADHD has been seen as that "boy's disease" or "just not growing up" (but I think it's really all the posters making "wait, what was I talking about, ooh, shiny things" jokes who haven't grown up), but it's a real disease that many adults have to cope with and do cope with. Welcome to the club, Famanoran, and good luck.
So in other words, something like this.
Couldn't this eat a little into the man-power savings (2 men instead of 15)? I mean, it'll take a couple of guys to operate the vacuum truck, I assume.
Cyber what? Cyber-sex?
God, I hope not. *shudders*
SPAM is the "processed meat product" manufactured by Hormel. Spam is unsolicited email (and text messaging now, I guess).
I've never had a single email spam to my phone email account, but I also never really use it (once emailed a friend who did have his phone on, but happened to be reading his email at that moment. Ah, technology!). As for text messaging, I don't have it, and see no point.