Goldeneye seems to be generally regarded as the best example,
That's the only game of a movie that I actually like. It's also one of my all time favorite games. Even the music was my favourite video game music. Can't wait for my new 50" TV to arrive - then I'll be firing my N64 up again. So what if the pixels are each going to be a foot across!
I asked this question of some friends the other day and the only example they came up with was Butcher Bay (Chronicles of Riddick). And curiously nobody had played it, they just heard it was good from reviews.
...Rayman DS. Much of the game is in shades of dark brown on black. Completely unplayable. It's as if it was never play tested on a real DS, just on an emulator with a super bright display. Of course they couldn't release a patch for a card - but at least a fix eventually appeared in the form of the DS Lite. People really need to test the final product on consumer grade hardware because these are unbelievably obvious bugs.
Pullman has it completely wrong - childhood has extended. As a near-40 year old my parents think it's weird that I still enjoy the occasional video game, or build Lego robots, or even read children's books such as Pullman's from time to time. People today no longer have to conform to old stereotypes of what it means to be an adult.
You wonder why/. isn't taking part in the government assisted 9/11 media circus yet have the temerity to talk about the 'hypnotube'. You complain that you can't speak your mind but your response to someone who does is 'fuck you'. And somehow you think all of this is indicative of a lack of "smart discussion".
Why should children care about the world that the old codgers who form the British Government live in? They may still use quill and ink and have pageboys deliver their messages, but the rest of the country have moved on, and that's the world children need to gain experience of.
Scroll up. Look. "NEWS FOR NERDS. STUFF THAT MATTERS." In what way does it matter that the Earth has rotated around the Sun approximately 5 times since 9/11/2001? And it's certainly not news, last time I checked the Earth went round the Sun every year. And there's definitely nothing nerdy about this - unless you mean the general nerdy interest in mayhem and destruction.
...downright strange that there hasn't been ONE main story about it today.
Are you expecting/. to manufacture news just to fit the theme you expect?
I'd say the same, but by coincidence my wife got her first XP BSOD this weekend. Apart from that I haven't seen one for years. In fact, Linux, MacOS X and Windows all seem pretty free of kernel panics to me these days and maybe the BSOD jokes need to die...
hides the ugly kernel panics behind a nice looking GUI
It must hide them really well because in 4 or 5 years I haven't seen one. (I did once about 5 years ago though - that'll teach me to mess with third party USB drivers.)
Far worse things could happen. For example we might find that the local vacuum state is just a local minimum and that there is, in fact, a lower energy state, if you can just push the vacuum over the edge of its potential well. Who knows, a few trillion eV might be enough to do that. The next effect would be that space itself would start dropping down to a lower energy level and the effect would probably spread out at the speed of light turning the entire universe into a vast ball of energy of <> proportions.
Judging by the descriptions in the article this guy is interested in looking at tampering by fairly incompetent people. That's a more tractable problem. And in practice - many people tampering with photos and video are incompetent - well, at least the ones we know about are.
This is the biggest myth of all - that technical skill is a requirement of good art. Technical skill may be required to execute some works of art, but only for secondary reasons. For example, a composer has a vast abstract space to explore when trying to generate music. By exploring the space of music playable by virtuosos they have vastly more options to discover good music than by exploring the smaller space of music playable by mediocre musicians. But the final result isn't good simply because it required technical skill - it's good because technical skill allowed the musician to 'reach' the performance. But there's no reason to think that there aren't also plenty of good compositions easier to reach. It's like exploring the world - air travel has allowed us to see many more beautiful things all over the world, but that doesn't preclude there being beautiful things closer to home.
Wow! that has to be one of the most egregious examples of taking a line out of context that I've seen. The actual context is:
Abraham Lincoln What a charming Negress. Oh, forgive me, my dear. I know in my time some used that term as a description of property. Uhura But why should I object to that term, sir? In our century, we've learned not to fear words.
Sam and Max is an old but good game. Some company has bought the rights to the name "Sam and Max". When you buy something's name, you don't become the thing. LIke I wouldn't suddenly become smarter if I named myself "Albert". So why does anyone care what some untrustworthy looking startup is doing just because they bought the 9 characters "SAM AND MAX"?
Don't ask the kids their ages. Ask everyone if they're a pedophile. Anyone who says yes is barred from signing up. It works for keeping terrorists out of the country.
You've practically stated the solution yourself - what we need is a LISP coprocessor. (I'd personally prefer Haskell but LISP is more traditional for AI.)
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I asked this question of some friends the other day and the only example they came up with was Butcher Bay (Chronicles of Riddick). And curiously nobody had played it, they just heard it was good from reviews.
Slightly OT: What is the backstory on Rayman - why aren't his arms and legs attached?
...Rayman DS. Much of the game is in shades of dark brown on black. Completely unplayable. It's as if it was never play tested on a real DS, just on an emulator with a super bright display. Of course they couldn't release a patch for a card - but at least a fix eventually appeared in the form of the DS Lite. People really need to test the final product on consumer grade hardware because these are unbelievably obvious bugs.
What's better: the movie of the game or the game of the movie? Is there a good example of either?
Pullman has it completely wrong - childhood has extended. As a near-40 year old my parents think it's weird that I still enjoy the occasional video game, or build Lego robots, or even read children's books such as Pullman's from time to time. People today no longer have to conform to old stereotypes of what it means to be an adult.
There's really no need for me to make a comment.
Let me rephrase that more precisely. Shareware USB drivers.
I'd say the same, but by coincidence my wife got her first XP BSOD this weekend. Apart from that I haven't seen one for years. In fact, Linux, MacOS X and Windows all seem pretty free of kernel panics to me these days and maybe the BSOD jokes need to die...
Far worse things could happen. For example we might find that the local vacuum state is just a local minimum and that there is, in fact, a lower energy state, if you can just push the vacuum over the edge of its potential well. Who knows, a few trillion eV might be enough to do that. The next effect would be that space itself would start dropping down to a lower energy level and the effect would probably spread out at the speed of light turning the entire universe into a vast ball of energy of <> proportions.
...that the world won't end as a result of this experiment. Any takers?
Judging by the descriptions in the article this guy is interested in looking at tampering by fairly incompetent people. That's a more tractable problem. And in practice - many people tampering with photos and video are incompetent - well, at least the ones we know about are.
But I bet all the people who evolved in the mini-universe created by said big-bang are really pissed about how little room there is in their universe.
I agree. People don't buy music to listen to it. They buy music so that they can do something else and not get so bored doing it.
Some moderator is clearly ignorant of basic relativity.
Abraham Lincoln What a charming Negress. Oh, forgive me, my dear. I know in my time some used that term as a description of property.
Uhura But why should I object to that term, sir? In our century, we've learned not to fear words.
Sam and Max is an old but good game. Some company has bought the rights to the name "Sam and Max". When you buy something's name, you don't become the thing. LIke I wouldn't suddenly become smarter if I named myself "Albert". So why does anyone care what some untrustworthy looking startup is doing just because they bought the 9 characters "SAM AND MAX"?
Don't ask the kids their ages. Ask everyone if they're a pedophile. Anyone who says yes is barred from signing up. It works for keeping terrorists out of the country.
You've practically stated the solution yourself - what we need is a LISP coprocessor. (I'd personally prefer Haskell but LISP is more traditional for AI.)