I'm surprised at the vitriol of the people here on Slashdot. The SC2 community is overjoyed to find a way to get together and enjoy a social game, similar to regular sports teams. I'd like to dispel one thing first of all, these events take place (usually) during major events such as MLG. They are not as frequent as twice a week usually. That being said, Starcraft 2 is a fantastic spectator sport. I think one of my best quotes from reddit I had the pleasure of reading goes like this,
I always meet people who know every single player on some football team or the forward of a professional basketball team and I was always awed by the depth of their knowledge of the sport they love.
I for one, have never had that and I could not understand the love of watching sports until I started playing/watching Starcraft.
Now I finally get it, I fucking love Starcraft.
My buddies and I used a cardboard computer case for a desperate friend at a lan party in highschool. As we quickly found out, the worst thing about it, is the complete lack of easily mountable intake and outtake fans. The actual ingeneuty of the story is far more interesting (basically 12 of us scrounging for enough computer parts to allow our friend to play), but to this day it still boggles my mind we got the darn thing working. To prevent overheating though, we pulled the mobo and everything out of the cardboard box. It stopped overheating then pretty quickly.
The reason you get a blank stare is because said student is usually a business or communication major and has no clue what Linux is. Heck as I computer science major, I don't know what you mean by 'support' Linux. Do you mean, do they have it in labs? Do they allow you to connect to the dorms using Linux? Do you mean as in what limited Tech support on campus and does it support Linux? Or do they have Linux in the computer labs?
Assuming you mean computer labs, I can tell you here at UNT they do not have linux, but they do have (on every computer) an ssh client that allows you to connect to your Linux account (CS Major).
I like what you've said, but you're drawing the wrong conclusions. Porting that from it's intended system to another can make gameplay difficult and frustrating, but not always. A game doesn't neccisarily rely on it's initial control design for ideal gameplay. I loathed Oblivion on my computer and I can't IMAGINE playing a game like Command and Conquer on a console. But when Doom was ported to allow mouse use, and strafing? Doom became one of the easiest FPS I'd ever played. (Turn your y-axis to nearly 0) There is no 'one ideal' control set for games, but it's generally accepted that mouse/keyboard combination is the superior combination for FPS.
A great example, there HAS been some cross-console gameplay in the past to set precedent for this. MS released a game a while back in 2007 called Shadowrun (terrible game), and allowed 360 users to go head to head against their PC counterparts. Balancing was an issue between PC and 360 and so MS, "implemented a feature which causes the cross-hair to expand during quick movements, thus lowering the player's accuracy... making it impossible to quickly turn and maintain accuracy, reducing the potential advantage of playing with a mouse". This was originally on Shadowrun's website, now found on wikipedia as an excerpt.
You'd think that would waste a lot of energy over a 100+ day trip. Surely there are better things to do? All I can think of is read a book; since you can't even play cards.
A CEO/manager may not be privy to the insights of a different sector; so these insights would be though provoking and sound completely logical (even though not backed up with statistics).
I read about half of his article; and it's actually pretty well thought out for a fifteen year old. I'll post probably my favorite snippet talking about video games (console vs PC).
This may be because usually games are released across all platforms, and whilst one can be sure a game will play on a console PC games require expensive set ups to ensure a game will play smoothly. In addition, PC games are relatively easy to pirate and download for free, so many teenagers would do this rather than buy a game.
In contrast, it is near impossible to obtain a console game for free.
Now to many of you, this was a 'well duh' moment where you rolled your eyes back through your skull, through the flesh into your mouth and then back. But it's insight like this that I'm sure big CEOs and managers love. Not because they couldn't think it; because any one manager from a specific sector knows these things. But he covers may different areas with seemingly good logic.
That being said, he does not back this up at all with statistics. As a 15 year old, his biggest weakness in his arguments is that they're not going to see a bigger picture. His views are true for a 15 year old living in a certain financial means (his parents), but not true to someone living in a ghetto, or living out in a farm (extremes). There's little insight to other demographics which the companies are selling to. But what do you expect? He's fifteen. That will come in time and experience.
Not to knock you too hard Howlingmadhowie, but I think the best response to your somewhat anti-american post is another person's post in this thread:
djupedal (584558) Alter Relationship on Friday June 12, @12:03PM (#28309309)
You have to stop and take a look at this from the EU point of view.
In the US, we seek humanistic solutions to what we see as wrongs done to the individual. In the EU, they seek procedural solutions to what they see as services gone wrong.
A good example of this; Open source solutions, a free alternative or try to promote a free GUI alternative (opera, Ubuntu, Firefox). While the EU is more likely to enforce some business restrictions; a top down approach. This is a predominantly American website, so of course you're going to see mods like that. And yes; some are of course going to be xenophobic (goodness knows we're a xenophobic nation), but the way we want solutions is simply inherently different (I believe) because of our culture.
So when the EC does what we see to be an overbearing government standard to protect its people, some Americans see it as trying to interfere with fair business practices. I'm not here trying to convince you that you're wrong, but perhaps being a bit quick to judge.
Also regarding your Hyjal site, you used to be able to get in there through a simple death-walk through the gate.
I notice in the article they mention the small 'haunted' house North of Stormwind Harbor. But he misses the BY FAR most fun part of going to this landing, and that is you used to be able to fly there... but not mount. You'd get a warlock to summon you there, hearth to outland, mount up, accept the summon and you could fly in Azeroth. The only downside was if you left the little non-zone area; you'd quickly fall off your mount.
Slashdot. The one place where you get modded offtopic for posting with a title starting OFF TOPIC (duh, you didn't think I don't know that? Friggin asshat modder)
Thanks thanks, I've just been going crazy at how difficult it's been to browse Slashdot the last few days. I suppose it's their way of saying "DON'T DO THIS AT WORK!"
I'm shocked no one has made this connection. This is lue of the http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop Hulu desktop that JUST has been released recently?
Step 1: Release Desktop Client.
Step 2: Make users pay for some content.
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
When RTFA article, the author does a search for gross revenue linked with movies. A decent idea. So I though; hey that's pretty cool, lets modify the search! Attempting my own search, I tried to get a listing of the top 10 grossing movies of all time. Adjusted for inflation.
Doing this you find out VERY quickly the limitations of their new table based search. A good sort function is what Google needs here. The ability to sort my searched information by specific fields. With this, you could organize the information into a viewable format. But of course this would have to be balanced with search accuracy; it's an extremely difficult line.
Additionally, the 'inflation' field was woefully incorrect(One number was had gross at 160million and inflation at 60million for a 2005 movie). Perhaps this is my own inexperience with their system; but how amazing would that be to get those sort of results. Finally, removing the inflation field; the search engine was unable to give me the top 10 grossing movies of all time without respect to inflation.
The new search engine is a good idea in theory, but will need (likely) a few years of modification before it becomes a powerful search tool. Honestly though, I drool at the possibilities.
I know this will be a bit paranoid but I'd feel much happier if they took away all those Warrantless Wiretapping and many of the other freedoms stolen recently by the Federal Government BEFORE they create a Pentagon Cyber-Command. If the Federal Government wants to make a Cyber-Command for the Pentagon, that's fine, but I want oversight that's being held accountable for their actions dammit!
If the Federal Government can issue itself a secret warrant to search my house, you think they're going to give a rats ass about curtailing cyber break-ins? "Who watches the Watchmen" as it were. It just doesn't sit right with me that the Federal Government is continueing to expand it's policing power at the expense of our freedoms.
I know, if someone in the program really wanted to abuse the system to break into our computers, they would, but at least give us the tools to defend ourselves legally!
I thought we had been recycling spent nuclear fuel too? At least I saw an article in the USA Today or NYTimes yesterday about Italy selling us nuclear waste to be processed in Tennessee.
I remember this. The trick was that on your third melee attack, you'd take a small step backwards. So back in Phantasy Star Online, you'd spam that with your back to whatever fence you were trying to get through. After enough time you'd nudge yourself past the fence to the delicious treasure on the other side.
I'm no guru of servers, but from my own limited experience in installing servers at the small to midsized company I work at, space is always a looming issue. And shrinking the size of the UPS you need can only save money and space in the long run; which any IT manager will tell you is a huge benefit and a great selling point.
Nothing to do but wait for a finished product at this point though.
You sir, are a champion and a hero of my whoring habits.
That aside, this has got to be the most frustrating Slashdot change in a while for me. I quit WoW 6 months ago, and now I'm just going to get addicted to Slashdot achievements!
Don't let this thread turn into "Lets bash Texas!" please. I just see it coming, so I write this in hopes to get people thinking.
I recently moved from Washington State to Houston, TX. Things are different here, that's no joke. Some people honestly think of this state as a sovereign country sometimes (and they were for a time... unfortunately). But people are people anywhere you go, and for the most part just want to be left alone down here, free from a government bothering them. This is fairly ingrained into their constitution too; especially as it was re-written when the old southern boys managed to get control back of the government from the highly obtrusive Northern States back in the past-Civil Wars days. They wanted to make sure that the State government was mostly ineffective and powerless so they could be left alone.
What this boils down to, is a State Legislature that is inherently designed to be weak and making change difficult, especially at a state level. In every two year period they are allowed to meet for 140 days (barring a special session being called). Can you imagine your state legislature only meeting for 70 days a year?
That being said, I want to DISPEL any preconceived notions you have about Democrats and Republicans when you look at the Texas State legislature. To get anything done is this ridiculous state, they have to actually work together. Let me repeat that. They have to work together. Partisan lines blur! This political attitude can be seen when you look at our nimrod of an ex-president, all he wanted was to get both Repub. and Dems. sides to work together. Lo and Behold, the political arena in the nation's capital was drastically different (and in my opinion, he was well over his head). Getting back on topic, when you have only 140 days to work with in 2 years, and you have to pass a friggin budget among so many other things, this shows how little Texans trust their government. But these days, no one in their right mind would trust any government at any level.
All I'm saying is, don't generalize Democrat and Republican so heavily in a state legislature. I'm sure most states in this country are the same way, by which I mean, their political arena is drastically different than the National arena.
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Good idea in theory, but I'd be willing to guess, it would be very easy to provide a stolen credit card for this information.
My buddies and I used a cardboard computer case for a desperate friend at a lan party in highschool. As we quickly found out, the worst thing about it, is the complete lack of easily mountable intake and outtake fans. The actual ingeneuty of the story is far more interesting (basically 12 of us scrounging for enough computer parts to allow our friend to play), but to this day it still boggles my mind we got the darn thing working. To prevent overheating though, we pulled the mobo and everything out of the cardboard box. It stopped overheating then pretty quickly.
The reason you get a blank stare is because said student is usually a business or communication major and has no clue what Linux is. Heck as I computer science major, I don't know what you mean by 'support' Linux. Do you mean, do they have it in labs? Do they allow you to connect to the dorms using Linux? Do you mean as in what limited Tech support on campus and does it support Linux? Or do they have Linux in the computer labs?
Assuming you mean computer labs, I can tell you here at UNT they do not have linux, but they do have (on every computer) an ssh client that allows you to connect to your Linux account (CS Major).
I like what you've said, but you're drawing the wrong conclusions. Porting that from it's intended system to another can make gameplay difficult and frustrating, but not always. A game doesn't neccisarily rely on it's initial control design for ideal gameplay. I loathed Oblivion on my computer and I can't IMAGINE playing a game like Command and Conquer on a console. But when Doom was ported to allow mouse use, and strafing? Doom became one of the easiest FPS I'd ever played. (Turn your y-axis to nearly 0) There is no 'one ideal' control set for games, but it's generally accepted that mouse/keyboard combination is the superior combination for FPS.
A great example, there HAS been some cross-console gameplay in the past to set precedent for this. MS released a game a while back in 2007 called Shadowrun (terrible game), and allowed 360 users to go head to head against their PC counterparts. Balancing was an issue between PC and 360 and so MS, "implemented a feature which causes the cross-hair to expand during quick movements, thus lowering the player's accuracy... making it impossible to quickly turn and maintain accuracy, reducing the potential advantage of playing with a mouse". This was originally on Shadowrun's website, now found on wikipedia as an excerpt.
I beg to differ. Through evolution, my ancestors will have survived and continue to THRIVE off of high-fructose corn syrup foods.
AMERICA! FUCK YEA!
sarcasmfilter = set_filter(1)
You'd think that would waste a lot of energy over a 100+ day trip. Surely there are better things to do? All I can think of is read a book; since you can't even play cards.
Ugh, forgot to proof read my second paragraph.
A CEO/manager may not be privy to the insights of a different sector; so these insights would be though provoking and sound completely logical (even though not backed up with statistics).
I read about half of his article; and it's actually pretty well thought out for a fifteen year old. I'll post probably my favorite snippet talking about video games (console vs PC).
This may be because usually games are released across all platforms, and whilst one can be sure a game will play on a console PC games require expensive set ups to ensure a game will play smoothly. In addition, PC games are relatively easy to pirate and download for free, so many teenagers would do this rather than buy a game.
In contrast, it is near impossible to obtain a console game for free.
Now to many of you, this was a 'well duh' moment where you rolled your eyes back through your skull, through the flesh into your mouth and then back. But it's insight like this that I'm sure big CEOs and managers love. Not because they couldn't think it; because any one manager from a specific sector knows these things. But he covers may different areas with seemingly good logic.
That being said, he does not back this up at all with statistics. As a 15 year old, his biggest weakness in his arguments is that they're not going to see a bigger picture. His views are true for a 15 year old living in a certain financial means (his parents), but not true to someone living in a ghetto, or living out in a farm (extremes). There's little insight to other demographics which the companies are selling to. But what do you expect? He's fifteen. That will come in time and experience.
It's definitely worth taking a peek at though.
"Mama's Crossdressing (for men)" on the Nintendo DS. Rippingly funny.
"Call of Duty : War of American Independence"
djupedal (584558) Alter Relationship on Friday June 12, @12:03PM (#28309309) You have to stop and take a look at this from the EU point of view.
In the US, we seek humanistic solutions to what we see as wrongs done to the individual. In the EU, they seek procedural solutions to what they see as services gone wrong.
A good example of this; Open source solutions, a free alternative or try to promote a free GUI alternative (opera, Ubuntu, Firefox). While the EU is more likely to enforce some business restrictions; a top down approach. This is a predominantly American website, so of course you're going to see mods like that. And yes; some are of course going to be xenophobic (goodness knows we're a xenophobic nation), but the way we want solutions is simply inherently different (I believe) because of our culture.
So when the EC does what we see to be an overbearing government standard to protect its people, some Americans see it as trying to interfere with fair business practices. I'm not here trying to convince you that you're wrong, but perhaps being a bit quick to judge.
Also regarding your Hyjal site, you used to be able to get in there through a simple death-walk through the gate.
I notice in the article they mention the small 'haunted' house North of Stormwind Harbor. But he misses the BY FAR most fun part of going to this landing, and that is you used to be able to fly there... but not mount. You'd get a warlock to summon you there, hearth to outland, mount up, accept the summon and you could fly in Azeroth. The only downside was if you left the little non-zone area; you'd quickly fall off your mount.
Slashdot. The one place where you get modded offtopic for posting with a title starting OFF TOPIC (duh, you didn't think I don't know that? Friggin asshat modder)
Thanks thanks, I've just been going crazy at how difficult it's been to browse Slashdot the last few days. I suppose it's their way of saying "DON'T DO THIS AT WORK!"
I'm shocked no one has made this connection. This is lue of the http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop Hulu desktop that JUST has been released recently?
Step 1: Release Desktop Client.
Step 2: Make users pay for some content.
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
You mind if I borrow your signature?
When RTFA article, the author does a search for gross revenue linked with movies. A decent idea. So I though; hey that's pretty cool, lets modify the search! Attempting my own search, I tried to get a listing of the top 10 grossing movies of all time. Adjusted for inflation.
Doing this you find out VERY quickly the limitations of their new table based search. A good sort function is what Google needs here. The ability to sort my searched information by specific fields. With this, you could organize the information into a viewable format. But of course this would have to be balanced with search accuracy; it's an extremely difficult line.
Additionally, the 'inflation' field was woefully incorrect(One number was had gross at 160million and inflation at 60million for a 2005 movie). Perhaps this is my own inexperience with their system; but how amazing would that be to get those sort of results. Finally, removing the inflation field; the search engine was unable to give me the top 10 grossing movies of all time without respect to inflation.
The new search engine is a good idea in theory, but will need (likely) a few years of modification before it becomes a powerful search tool. Honestly though, I drool at the possibilities.
I know this will be a bit paranoid but I'd feel much happier if they took away all those Warrantless Wiretapping and many of the other freedoms stolen recently by the Federal Government BEFORE they create a Pentagon Cyber-Command. If the Federal Government wants to make a Cyber-Command for the Pentagon, that's fine, but I want oversight that's being held accountable for their actions dammit!
If the Federal Government can issue itself a secret warrant to search my house, you think they're going to give a rats ass about curtailing cyber break-ins? "Who watches the Watchmen" as it were. It just doesn't sit right with me that the Federal Government is continueing to expand it's policing power at the expense of our freedoms.
I know, if someone in the program really wanted to abuse the system to break into our computers, they would, but at least give us the tools to defend ourselves legally!
Truly, there is never a time to quote Leia. Not even on Slashdot. Truly.
I don't get it >_>
I thought we had been recycling spent nuclear fuel too? At least I saw an article in the USA Today or NYTimes yesterday about Italy selling us nuclear waste to be processed in Tennessee.
I couldn't find the original article; but here's a related one from Associated Press. http://www.topix.com/forum/city/church-hill-tn/TQEJMTT7JR9FSKEAI
I remember this. The trick was that on your third melee attack, you'd take a small step backwards. So back in Phantasy Star Online, you'd spam that with your back to whatever fence you were trying to get through. After enough time you'd nudge yourself past the fence to the delicious treasure on the other side.
I'm no guru of servers, but from my own limited experience in installing servers at the small to midsized company I work at, space is always a looming issue. And shrinking the size of the UPS you need can only save money and space in the long run; which any IT manager will tell you is a huge benefit and a great selling point.
Nothing to do but wait for a finished product at this point though.
You sir, are a champion and a hero of my whoring habits.
That aside, this has got to be the most frustrating Slashdot change in a while for me. I quit WoW 6 months ago, and now I'm just going to get addicted to Slashdot achievements!
Ha Haw!
Don't let this thread turn into "Lets bash Texas!" please. I just see it coming, so I write this in hopes to get people thinking.
I recently moved from Washington State to Houston, TX. Things are different here, that's no joke. Some people honestly think of this state as a sovereign country sometimes (and they were for a time... unfortunately). But people are people anywhere you go, and for the most part just want to be left alone down here, free from a government bothering them. This is fairly ingrained into their constitution too; especially as it was re-written when the old southern boys managed to get control back of the government from the highly obtrusive Northern States back in the past-Civil Wars days. They wanted to make sure that the State government was mostly ineffective and powerless so they could be left alone.
What this boils down to, is a State Legislature that is inherently designed to be weak and making change difficult, especially at a state level. In every two year period they are allowed to meet for 140 days (barring a special session being called). Can you imagine your state legislature only meeting for 70 days a year?
That being said, I want to DISPEL any preconceived notions you have about Democrats and Republicans when you look at the Texas State legislature. To get anything done is this ridiculous state, they have to actually work together. Let me repeat that. They have to work together. Partisan lines blur! This political attitude can be seen when you look at our nimrod of an ex-president, all he wanted was to get both Repub. and Dems. sides to work together. Lo and Behold, the political arena in the nation's capital was drastically different (and in my opinion, he was well over his head). Getting back on topic, when you have only 140 days to work with in 2 years, and you have to pass a friggin budget among so many other things, this shows how little Texans trust their government. But these days, no one in their right mind would trust any government at any level.
All I'm saying is, don't generalize Democrat and Republican so heavily in a state legislature. I'm sure most states in this country are the same way, by which I mean, their political arena is drastically different than the National arena.