Hardly. I assume that since you post here, you know something about the limitations of algorithmic prediction of behavior. I'd rather have a cop watching, than some computer that was coded under the direction of some bureaucrat who has never actually had to pay any of his tickets. At least the cop will be perceived as not infallible. Techno-illiterate courts think computers ARE infallible.
This selfish, insecure desire to join a posse and stick it to someone is one of the factors causing society's slow descent into an orwellian nightmare. How about facing the elephant in the room, an overreaching government that taxes too much (your excuse to justify the cams), instead of cowardly flapping your hands while saying it's someone elses fault? Cam victims aren't the ones taxing you.
And I think there must be a lot of people who feel like me, otherwise there would be no red-light cameras.
Fallacious reasoning. This does nothing to support your viewpoint.
I'll repeat myself. I wasn't talking about facebook specifically. Posting as anon, you must care about privacy too. I shouldn't be able to waive any rights, contract or no contract.
I don't see what's so hard to understand. If 'pre-crime comes to the HR dept' we effectively lose our rights. Having defined them on paper only to have to turn them over in order to gain basic necessities (money for work in this case) makes them null and void. For the last time, I'm not just talking about inanities like facebook. Of course, if membership in one or more of these sites becomes one of those sneaky, implied social requirements....
Maybe the solution is to make contracts which tread on civil liberties illegal.. While privacy isn't on the list now, maybe it should be. These days, it's getting harder and harder to function in life without giving up your rights. This should not be.
irrational by whose definition? lack self control by whose definition?
brilliance often comes with an offbeat personality. you're not going to find brilliance in joe schmoe conformers. I don't see why employers should care so long as the work output is adequate. Of course, most policy is set by conformists who still haven't grown out of high school cliquery, so things like dress codes, 'team spirit' propaganda meetings, and other such drivel are the norm.
finally, employers should have no say in what an employee does in his free time. If the activities affect work performance, then tell the employee his work sucks. usually, in this case, the employer doesnt care why, only that the employee improve. This reasonable stance does not require Total Surveillance.
I stopped reading at 'CDs dont last as long.' Seriously? Vinyl outlasts a pressed CD? What planet are you from?..or what universe? (jk yes I read your whole comment)
1. people buy cds to listen to music, not to save for college. 'the right places to the right audiophiles'.. You mean the emotional kind who buy into hype over technical realities?
2. in a reasonable environment, cds will outlast just about any other storage medium to date.. By 'reasonable' I mean a typical home environment under the auspices of a careful owner. I do not mean a clean room environment. There is nothing to wear out. The laser is not powerful enough to etch the polycarbonate or reflective layers. The data on it has error correction built into it. Yes, I know it's not very robust, but it's good enough to prevent gradual 'error creep' from careless use. If the cd has been abused to the point where you can hear audible errors, you'll know for sure by the screetching/popping/skipping.
3. Collecting modern vinyl is moot since most of it will be produced with the same studio mix as the CD. Collect old stuff if you want to avoid the loudness war, but this problem will not go away simply by switching formats.
4. What does 'beyond its fidelity' mean? If you mean that good equipment exposes flaws in the recording, I agree. With lossless digital formats, the weak points are the studio engineers and the consumer playback devices, not the format itself. Vinyl is a lossy format. It's just not digital, and that's what everyone raves about even though the term doesn't address its weaknesses. The anti digital crowd's argument boils down to misguided assumptions about signal purity. At sufficient resolution, a PCM approximation of an analog waveform is indistinguishable from the original by ANYONES' ear, especially once it's pumped back through an analog power amplifier and speakers. CDs 16 bit 44100hz rate is sufficient to do this for 99% of all sources. The problem lies in the policies of the recording studio.
Listeners, audiophiles or not, are far more likely to notice the lower dynamic range, rising intermod distortion, cracks/pops/skips, wow/flutter of vinyl as it wears, than they would miss the theoretical ultrasonic sampling rates (say 60Khz and up) it may offer.
If you look more closely at those groups today, you'll see that none of them are about civil rights. Maybe they were at one point, I don't know as I wasn't there, but I'm talking about now. They're about amassing voter blocks and power structures. what's the difference between the KKK and the NAACP these days? not much once all the pomp and circumstance the latter has gained from its heyday is stripped away. One has gained political acceptance and the other has not. Neither want equality. sure, they throw the term around but it's newspeak definition. they want dominance and special status. This message appeals to those who have been or just feel disenfranchised, so they join. Others, who are not in the demographic, but hear the message, may feel a form of survivor-guilt, so they support the movement too, and the monster grows.
the real proof is in the actions of those groups who have already achieved their stated goals (legal equality in some context) but do not disband. Instead they keep the fires burning just enough to maintain their political relevance. I have nothing against non-whites, gays, or women, but I do have a big problem with the way PACs like the NAACP, the womens' groups, and more recently, even the gay activist groups are abusing these people for political power. It's great that NARAL fights for abortion rights, but yet it has no problem with supporting the demonization of males. It's great that the NAACP supports the building of schools in poor non-white communities, but then why does it rail against any attempt for white people to support their poor? When that happens, they break out the racism plackards...but who cares when it allows a 2 minute press conference about abortion or gay marriage to trigger mass vote herding? that's a gravy train that's too good for the democrats to pass up I guess. the irony is that it's the government which limits these two examples in the first place. So, in the name of freedom, the curtain of government is expanded, and the next time some PAC claims victim status over some issue, even more peoples' rights can be trampled when the rope around the edges is pulled tight. this has been the cycle for the last 30 years at least.
Im guessing from her time at harvard that she will lean to the individual.
..not if the current democratic party is any indication of what happens to all those anti-establishment, pro-people types once they graduate and have 30-40 years to simmer in their own juices. they become jaded, then hardened, then desperate. Once that happens, they dont care anymore who they have to trample to achieve their goals. thus they become what it was they started out to fight in the first place. perhaps this is why the activist groups mentioned above have become what they are now.
..and all those people you speak so highly of, the ones who hire and pay you and manage you and all that fun stuff, they need to understand that feelings do not define logic , math, or the universe. if someone from IT says one of these people is wrong, then most likely they are, or they have not defined the problem properly. after all, IT people are hired because they have this knowledge. hiring them, then refusing to listen basedd on some neo-hippie 'optimism-pessimism' false dichotomy, and them BLAMING them for the failure of the unrealistic project is not right. perhaps it is the rest of these people who need to be schooled in Critical Thinking 101.
It's a game delivered as a service. These restrictions are necessary to maintain a level of quality and consistency for all. This seems obvious to me and shouldn't really need to be pointed out.
this stuff-as-service meme wasn't needed before.. Quake 3 has/had quite a long shelf life without the vendor exercising obsessive compulsive control over the product. id made money on the sale of the game, and the community made/kept it viable.
Basically, id said that advertising alone cannot support the project, which was their original plan. It's a shame, but I expect the subscriptions will be needed to cover the bulk of running and development costs.
I don't, I'm sorry. Quake 3 was $50 when it was released. There were plenty of servers to play on, especially once the more popular mods got going. squelching this system and replacing it with a locked down experience in order to squeeze more money out of it only hurts the value of the product to the customers. implying that software-as-service is a better idea than maintaining a known ecosystem that has worked for better part of a decade doesn't make sense. the only one losing out here is the customer because so much of the intrinsic value was from 3rd party development/support.
Private Servers
Clan Support
Stored stats
By-pass ad messages
quake 3 let you run your own server, public or private. Don't forget LAN games... if you wanted to run a clan server, you got a host and ran the game on it. easy as cake. it was YOUR server, not rented to you by id. yes there were also 3rd party server rentals.. I'm not sure what 'clan support' means but there were/are plenty of ladders out there for clans to play on. most of these sites have forums and there's always irc.
Stored stats? as far as global stats go, it wouldn't be difficult to aggregate the output of server log files and push them to a master site. In fact I know this was done at one point for certain mods.
bypass ads? since when are ads needed? quake 3 servers never had ads. this problem was created by the very system you're saying solves it.
Q3A's community failed to maintain the interest of all but a small minority. QL is an attempt to broaden the audience and the tier system is designed to allow new players to enter the community without being destroyed by the old-timers. This is what killed Q3A, as it got to the point where the barrier for entry was impossibly high and the only players were the hardcore elite.
it's a small minority today, yes, but not at the beginning of the decade. is justin bieber a better artist solely because he's more popular with the up and coming crowd than artist X? getting raped by better players is part of the learning process. it keeps the avg skill level in the community high. Dumbing down the learning curve changes the nature of the game, watering it down. thus quake live is NOT q3a. It masquerades as such. I don't see this as a positive. Making a game newb proof just makes better newbs, not better players.
Come on, do these things honestly bother you that much? My guess is that certain companies are not interested in having their products associated with ultraviolence and childish swearing. These changes mean more potential ad revenue, lowering the subscription price.
are you serious? id cut their teeth on such memes. childish swearing? I suppose the haughty preachy nonsense that the insecure use to justify censorship is better? I'm simply saying that this aspect changes the nature of the game and its community. quake was the place to go when you wanted to play your best and talk without worrying about psycho-political bullshit quite so much. The worst emos would ragequit and never return. good riddance. Every community needs its filters. Your economic justification doesn't make sense as id made tons of money on the first 3 games, no censoring required. no ads
1. no unsanctioned user content 2. no 3rd party independent servers. 3. it's a stupid browser dll. why? just have the javascript call quake3.exe with the params... 4. the stock q3 maps were not much to rave about. only a few were serviceable during q3's lifetime (q3dm6,q3dm7,q3dm13, q3dm16, and everyone lived q3dm17 for some reason). the rest were rarely if ever played. the meat and potatoes were the maps that came with the various large mod projects that came later. 5. the rest of the 'premium' content is just the team arena maps. big deal. paying for map packs = lame bullshit. 6. sure it has a 'community' but then so did q3. q3's community is/was far superior in many ways. many were active producers of content and the consumers played active roles in testing prereleases. many of them cared.. that makes a BIG difference in the intrinsic value of something like a game community. people paying subscriptions have a completely different attitude. 7. no blood, censored language chat in game and in the forums.. really? since when was quake rated PG? the quake I remember was full of piss and vinegar and attitude, game and players both. that was its charm. pantywaists with thin skin need not apply.
(if there are dupes to this post, I'm sorry, but slashdots' scripts are buggin out again).
Peacefully not leaving a library when told to doesn't justify being tasered multiple times, and any sane person would see that...and conservative law-literalists wonder why they're labeled as authoritarian monsters.
Haul him out of there if necessary, but tasering? I call bullshit on that.
..and this wasn't patently obvious from the 1st day they started using banners back in the mid 90s? If they're just figuring this now, then marketers really are fools.
Maybe as a society we should stop focusing on blame quite so much and focus MORE on the 'why' surrounding the behavior. The principal's blaming the students for supposed 'improper' behavior, and the students' retribution for it are really part of the same problem.
Freedom of speech SHOULD be absolute (along with the rest of the bill of rights). if it's not, then it's merely going to be defined by the majority group in power, rendering it useless.
This family's values are a healthy normal response to the unchecked authoritarianism of school and the government at large.
Yup, though the new 'rage' today is that timedemos aren't respresentative of 'real' gameplay. However, these people forget that there needs to be a consistent frame of reference so that the bar graphs comparing the hw stack up correctly and consistently. This is also needed so others who haven't seen the hw for themselves can test their own machines and compare to see if the new stuff's worth the upgrade. With few exceptions, long gone are the days of being able to download recorded demos used by these review sites. Perhaps it is at the card manufacturers' requests or worse: a condition to receive free hardware.:\
Another favorite is cutting the graphs off at 60 fps which really makes it impossible to get the full picture of how the card and driver perform under various kinds of loads and bottlenecks. Also, there's the subjective view that some players can see the difference between 60fps and 120.
In the U.S. if content the government dislikes is printed or spoken by a journalist who chooses to do so, they don't end up sentenced to forced labor, or worse, end up with their family billed for the price of the bullet used to execute them.
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no, instead they're forced to 'name their sources' or be put in prison instead.
None of those games have deathmatch gameplay anything like the quakes. Painkiller comes closest but its physics get in the way. Yes, you still shoot stuff, but the gameplay/movement/physics are closer to that of a reality simulator than a deathmatch game. It's true that many gamers have moved on, but the 'hardcore' deathmatch players tend to stick with quake. Despite what many seem to think, not everyone thinks 'realism' is the most important thing when they game.
sure..except that by using activex on a webpage, you basically require that people use windows all the way through the userdeveloper pipeline. This negates the whole point of the web to begin with. You might as well just ship a windows executable that talks to your backend over an encrypted channel and duck the dhtml scripts and web servers entirely.
I agree about openmindedness..That's why I don't understand why christians want to censor everything. They, like everyone else, have the option of not viewing objectionable content. You're telling me to be tolerant? Take your own advice.
well I used worldcraft as a quake editor before valve bought out the author. It was a decent editor, but not any better than the competition (radiant, which was out by that time). I guess I really don't see the difference here. id was the one that pioneered modding with the release of the doom wad file specs, and the DEUs pkg quickly followed. This happened years before the source release, and years before quake/quake2 and hl. id was also the first to start releasing true sdk's for their games (with quakeC), so that gamers could manipulate the engine code.
I view the buying up of mods dimly at best as it just looks like a money grab. From my point of view, I now have to pay for something that used to be free, and I don't like how valve has an OC complex regarding what players do (steam/req'd auth servers etc) even at private lan events. However, I am all for the hiring of mod talent for the production of new, original content.
Agreed 100%. This is what happened to the existing ip4 network. I was wondering when business e-thug types were going to take notice of the ip6 network.. I guess I got my answer.
id released their qe4 quake editor source code years ago, after the release of quake2. That spawned radiant et al.
Valve had squat to do with modding. it was id's engine that gave hl(1) easy moding ability in the first place. id opened the doors for mods, not valve.
That all sounds nice, but if I'm going to be subject to restrictive licenses, I might as well just run windows in the first place and be done with it. Xandros may or may not have a 'killer-app' linux, but its worthless to me because it sacrifices the core philosophies that make linux worthwhile.
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Hardly. I assume that since you post here, you know something about the limitations of algorithmic prediction of behavior. I'd rather have a cop watching, than some computer that was coded under the direction of some bureaucrat who has never actually had to pay any of his tickets. At least the cop will be perceived as not infallible. Techno-illiterate courts think computers ARE infallible.
This selfish, insecure desire to join a posse and stick it to someone is one of the factors causing society's slow descent into an orwellian nightmare. How about facing the elephant in the room, an overreaching government that taxes too much (your excuse to justify the cams), instead of cowardly flapping your hands while saying it's someone elses fault? Cam victims aren't the ones taxing you.
And I think there must be a lot of people who feel like me, otherwise there would be no red-light cameras.
Fallacious reasoning. This does nothing to support your viewpoint.
I'll repeat myself. I wasn't talking about facebook specifically. Posting as anon, you must care about privacy too. I shouldn't be able to waive any rights, contract or no contract.
I don't see what's so hard to understand. If 'pre-crime comes to the HR dept' we effectively lose our rights. Having defined them on paper only to have to turn them over in order to gain basic necessities (money for work in this case) makes them null and void. For the last time, I'm not just talking about inanities like facebook. Of course, if membership in one or more of these sites becomes one of those sneaky, implied social requirements....
I said what should be, you said what is. I'm not just talking about facebook. Think about it.
Maybe the solution is to make contracts which tread on civil liberties illegal.. While privacy isn't on the list now, maybe it should be. These days, it's getting harder and harder to function in life without giving up your rights. This should not be.
irrational by whose definition?
lack self control by whose definition?
brilliance often comes with an offbeat personality. you're not going to find brilliance in joe schmoe conformers. I don't see why employers should care so long as the work output is adequate. Of course, most policy is set by conformists who still haven't grown out of high school cliquery, so things like dress codes, 'team spirit' propaganda meetings, and other such drivel are the norm.
finally, employers should have no say in what an employee does in his free time. If the activities affect work performance, then tell the employee his work sucks. usually, in this case, the employer doesnt care why, only that the employee improve. This reasonable stance does not require Total Surveillance.
I stopped reading at 'CDs dont last as long.' Seriously? Vinyl outlasts a pressed CD? What planet are you from? ..or what universe? (jk yes I read your whole comment)
1. people buy cds to listen to music, not to save for college. 'the right places to the right audiophiles'.. You mean the emotional kind who buy into hype over technical realities?
2. in a reasonable environment, cds will outlast just about any other storage medium to date.. By 'reasonable' I mean a typical home environment under the auspices of a careful owner. I do not mean a clean room environment. There is nothing to wear out. The laser is not powerful enough to etch the polycarbonate or reflective layers. The data on it has error correction built into it. Yes, I know it's not very robust, but it's good enough to prevent gradual 'error creep' from careless use. If the cd has been abused to the point where you can hear audible errors, you'll know for sure by the screetching/popping/skipping.
3. Collecting modern vinyl is moot since most of it will be produced with the same studio mix as the CD. Collect old stuff if you want to avoid the loudness war, but this problem will not go away simply by switching formats.
4. What does 'beyond its fidelity' mean? If you mean that good equipment exposes flaws in the recording, I agree. With lossless digital formats, the weak points are the studio engineers and the consumer playback devices, not the format itself. Vinyl is a lossy format. It's just not digital, and that's what everyone raves about even though the term doesn't address its weaknesses. The anti digital crowd's argument boils down to misguided assumptions about signal purity. At sufficient resolution, a PCM approximation of an analog waveform is indistinguishable from the original by ANYONES' ear, especially once it's pumped back through an analog power amplifier and speakers. CDs 16 bit 44100hz rate is sufficient to do this for 99% of all sources. The problem lies in the policies of the recording studio.
Listeners, audiophiles or not, are far more likely to notice the lower dynamic range, rising intermod distortion, cracks/pops/skips, wow/flutter of vinyl as it wears, than they would miss the theoretical ultrasonic sampling rates (say 60Khz and up) it may offer.
More details here
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)
If you look more closely at those groups today, you'll see that none of them are about civil rights. Maybe they were at one point, I don't know as I wasn't there, but I'm talking about now. They're about amassing voter blocks and power structures. what's the difference between the KKK and the NAACP these days? not much once all the pomp and circumstance the latter has gained from its heyday is stripped away. One has gained political acceptance and the other has not. Neither want equality. sure, they throw the term around but it's newspeak definition. they want dominance and special status. This message appeals to those who have been or just feel disenfranchised, so they join. Others, who are not in the demographic, but hear the message, may feel a form of survivor-guilt, so they support the movement too, and the monster grows.
the real proof is in the actions of those groups who have already achieved their stated goals (legal equality in some context) but do not disband. Instead they keep the fires burning just enough to maintain their political relevance. I have nothing against non-whites, gays, or women, but I do have a big problem with the way PACs like the NAACP, the womens' groups, and more recently, even the gay activist groups are abusing these people for political power. It's great that NARAL fights for abortion rights, but yet it has no problem with supporting the demonization of males. It's great that the NAACP supports the building of schools in poor non-white communities, but then why does it rail against any attempt for white people to support their poor? When that happens, they break out the racism plackards. ..but who cares when it allows a 2 minute press conference about abortion or gay marriage to trigger mass vote herding? that's a gravy train that's too good for the democrats to pass up I guess. the irony is that it's the government which limits these two examples in the first place. So, in the name of freedom, the curtain of government is expanded, and the next time some PAC claims victim status over some issue, even more peoples' rights can be trampled when the rope around the edges is pulled tight. this has been the cycle for the last 30 years at least.
Im guessing from her time at harvard that she will lean to the individual.
..not if the current democratic party is any indication of what happens to all those anti-establishment, pro-people types once they graduate and have 30-40 years to simmer in their own juices. they become jaded, then hardened, then desperate. Once that happens, they dont care anymore who they have to trample to achieve their goals. thus they become what it was they started out to fight in the first place. perhaps this is why the activist groups mentioned above have become what they are now.
..and all those people you speak so highly of, the ones who hire and pay you and manage you and all that fun stuff, they need to understand that feelings do not define logic , math, or the universe. if someone from IT says one of these people is wrong, then most likely they are, or they have not defined the problem properly. after all, IT people are hired because they have this knowledge. hiring them, then refusing to listen basedd on some neo-hippie 'optimism-pessimism' false dichotomy, and them BLAMING them for the failure of the unrealistic project is not right. perhaps it is the rest of these people who need to be schooled in Critical Thinking 101.
It's a game delivered as a service. These restrictions are necessary to maintain a level of quality and consistency for all. This seems obvious to me and shouldn't really need to be pointed out.
this stuff-as-service meme wasn't needed before.. Quake 3 has/had quite a long shelf life without the vendor exercising obsessive compulsive control over the product. id made money on the sale of the game, and the community made/kept it viable.
Basically, id said that advertising alone cannot support the project, which was their original plan. It's a shame, but I expect the subscriptions will be needed to cover the bulk of running and development costs.
I don't, I'm sorry. Quake 3 was $50 when it was released. There were plenty of servers to play on, especially once the more popular mods got going. squelching this system and replacing it with a locked down experience in order to squeeze more money out of it only hurts the value of the product to the customers. implying that software-as-service is a better idea than maintaining a known ecosystem that has worked for better part of a decade doesn't make sense. the only one losing out here is the customer because so much of the intrinsic value was from 3rd party development/support.
Private Servers
Clan Support
Stored stats
By-pass ad messages
quake 3 let you run your own server, public or private. Don't forget LAN games... if you wanted to run a clan server, you got a host and ran the game on it. easy as cake. it was YOUR server, not rented to you by id. yes there were also 3rd party server rentals.. I'm not sure what 'clan support' means but there were/are plenty of ladders out there for clans to play on. most of these sites have forums and there's always irc.
Stored stats? as far as global stats go, it wouldn't be difficult to aggregate the output of server log files and push them to a master site. In fact I know this was done at one point for certain mods.
bypass ads? since when are ads needed? quake 3 servers never had ads. this problem was created by the very system you're saying solves it.
Q3A's community failed to maintain the interest of all but a small minority. QL is an attempt to broaden the audience and the tier system is designed to allow new players to enter the community without being destroyed by the old-timers. This is what killed Q3A, as it got to the point where the barrier for entry was impossibly high and the only players were the hardcore elite.
it's a small minority today, yes, but not at the beginning of the decade. is justin bieber a better artist solely because he's more popular with the up and coming crowd than artist X? getting raped by better players is part of the learning process. it keeps the avg skill level in the community high. Dumbing down the learning curve changes the nature of the game, watering it down. thus quake live is NOT q3a. It masquerades as such. I don't see this as a positive. Making a game newb proof just makes better newbs, not better players.
Come on, do these things honestly bother you that much? My guess is that certain companies are not interested in having their products associated with ultraviolence and childish swearing. These changes mean more potential ad revenue, lowering the subscription price.
are you serious? id cut their teeth on such memes. childish swearing? I suppose the haughty preachy nonsense that the insecure use to justify censorship is better? I'm simply saying that this aspect changes the nature of the game and its community. quake was the place to go when you wanted to play your best and talk without worrying about psycho-political bullshit quite so much. The worst emos would ragequit and never return. good riddance. Every community needs its filters. Your economic justification doesn't make sense as id made tons of money on the first 3 games, no censoring required. no ads
1. no unsanctioned user content
2. no 3rd party independent servers.
3. it's a stupid browser dll. why? just have the javascript call quake3.exe with the params...
4. the stock q3 maps were not much to rave about. only a few were serviceable during q3's lifetime (q3dm6,q3dm7,q3dm13, q3dm16, and everyone lived q3dm17 for some reason). the rest were rarely if ever played. the meat and potatoes were the maps that came with the various large mod projects that came later.
5. the rest of the 'premium' content is just the team arena maps. big deal. paying for map packs = lame bullshit.
6. sure it has a 'community' but then so did q3. q3's community is/was far superior in many ways. many were active producers of content and the consumers played active roles in testing prereleases. many of them cared.. that makes a BIG difference in the intrinsic value of something like a game community. people paying subscriptions have a completely different attitude.
7. no blood, censored language chat in game and in the forums.. really? since when was quake rated PG? the quake I remember was full of piss and vinegar and attitude, game and players both. that was its charm. pantywaists with thin skin need not apply.
(if there are dupes to this post, I'm sorry, but slashdots' scripts are buggin out again).
Peacefully not leaving a library when told to doesn't justify being tasered multiple times, and any sane person would see that. ..and conservative law-literalists wonder why they're labeled as authoritarian monsters.
Haul him out of there if necessary, but tasering? I call bullshit on that.
..and this wasn't patently obvious from the 1st day they started using banners back in the mid 90s? If they're just figuring this now, then marketers really are fools.
Maybe as a society we should stop focusing on blame quite so much and focus MORE on the 'why' surrounding the behavior. The principal's blaming the students for supposed 'improper' behavior, and the students' retribution for it are really part of the same problem.
Freedom of speech SHOULD be absolute (along with the rest of the bill of rights). if it's not, then it's merely going to be defined by the majority group in power, rendering it useless.
This family's values are a healthy normal response to the unchecked authoritarianism of school and the government at large.
Yup, though the new 'rage' today is that timedemos aren't respresentative of 'real' gameplay. However, these people forget that there needs to be a consistent frame of reference so that the bar graphs comparing the hw stack up correctly and consistently. This is also needed so others who haven't seen the hw for themselves can test their own machines and compare to see if the new stuff's worth the upgrade. With few exceptions, long gone are the days of being able to download recorded demos used by these review sites. Perhaps it is at the card manufacturers' requests or worse: a condition to receive free hardware. :\
Another favorite is cutting the graphs off at 60 fps which really makes it impossible to get the full picture of how the card and driver perform under various kinds of loads and bottlenecks. Also, there's the subjective view that some players can see the difference between 60fps and 120.
In the U.S. if content the government dislikes is printed or spoken by a journalist who chooses to do so, they don't end up sentenced to forced labor, or worse, end up with their family billed for the price of the bullet used to execute them.
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no, instead they're forced to 'name their sources' or be put in prison instead.
None of those games have deathmatch gameplay anything like the quakes. Painkiller comes closest but its physics get in the way. Yes, you still shoot stuff, but the gameplay/movement/physics are closer to that of a reality simulator than a deathmatch game. It's true that many gamers have moved on, but the 'hardcore' deathmatch players tend to stick with quake. Despite what many seem to think, not everyone thinks 'realism' is the most important thing when they game.
why not add skin color to your list while you're at it...
sure..except that by using activex on a webpage, you basically require that people use windows all the way through the userdeveloper pipeline. This negates the whole point of the web to begin with. You might as well just ship a windows executable that talks to your backend over an encrypted channel and duck the dhtml scripts and web servers entirely.
I agree about openmindedness..That's why I don't understand why christians want to censor everything. They, like everyone else, have the option of not viewing objectionable content. You're telling me to be tolerant? Take your own advice.
well I used worldcraft as a quake editor before valve bought out the author. It was a decent editor, but not any better than the competition (radiant, which was out by that time). I guess I really don't see the difference here. id was the one that pioneered modding with the release of the doom wad file specs, and the DEUs pkg quickly followed. This happened years before the source release, and years before quake/quake2 and hl. id was also the first to start releasing true sdk's for their games (with quakeC), so that gamers could manipulate the engine code.
I view the buying up of mods dimly at best as it just looks like a money grab. From my point of view, I now have to pay for something that used to be free, and I don't like how valve has an OC complex regarding what players do (steam/req'd auth servers etc) even at private lan events. However, I am all for the hiring of mod talent for the production of new, original content.
Agreed 100%. This is what happened to the existing ip4 network. I was wondering when business e-thug types were going to take notice of the ip6 network.. I guess I got my answer.
id released their qe4 quake editor source code years ago, after the release of quake2. That spawned radiant et al.
Valve had squat to do with modding. it was id's engine that gave hl(1) easy moding ability in the first place. id opened the doors for mods, not valve.
That all sounds nice, but if I'm going to be subject to restrictive licenses, I might as well just run windows in the first place and be done with it. Xandros may or may not have a 'killer-app' linux, but its worthless to me because it sacrifices the core philosophies that make linux worthwhile.