The local networks, CNN, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Comedy Central (Daily Show, South Park), for me please. Hold the 50 different shopping networks, hold the various family values (PAX, etc) channels, hold FOX News...
Sure would be nice if programmers around the world would at least follow this guys lead a little bit. I'm so sick of bloated software. For example - CD Writing software for windows. Does anyone need or even want all the dang crap that comes in those?
It would? I got kind of annoyed at the 2.5 minute data generation time, and that is on my 2.6 ghz 800 mhz FSB Pentium 4.
Not to mention that all the art in games would become very boring if it were all procedurally generated by a programmer rather than laid out by real artists and level designers.
Comparing what is essentially a procedurally generated demo with some interactivity to a real game is apples to oranges.
You almost certainly are. My email address is xxx@yahoo.com, where xxx are replaced by three other letters. Presumably because of the short length and the popular yahoo domain I constantly get artifacts in my mailbox that point to my address having been used by spam-bots.. usually in the form of bounce messages or auto-responder messages to people I'm certain I've never emailed, particularly not with subject lines containing words like "CHEAP V1AGR4!!!".
I hate to come off as the party pooper, but this joke is:
A) Very Old (predates all of these tech companies and is probably older than than poster -- used to be told about college students, navy/army, various other competing entities).
B) Scientifically suspect. Even if you don't piss on your hands, handling your johnson exposes your hands to coliform bacteria that is generally harmless to yourself but could be a problem for others. So even if you don't piss on your hands, you should still wash them before you go around touching everything at work, you dirty hippy.
How long until someone puts an Open Channel Nine project on SourceForge? Because as we all know, the primary goal of an Open Source software developer is to take something Microsoft have done first and then implement a shoddy knock off of it!
Stating the obvious here, but pretty much an incident is preventable given circumstances X, Y and Z. But in the real world we have to make decisions based on things like economic factors.
This is a cool project. Windows is awesome. It is good to finally see Linux users realizing that the Windows UI is the best one there is and adapting to use it.
Nitpicking the transcription of a Monty Python skit in a Slashdot post, eh? Trying to win those last few Dork Points to put you over the top in the Dork of the Year contest?
Steganography? Are you going for a keyword karma whoring? Because your post is just silly. Who would try to embed some secret information in an XML file when the whole purpose of XML is so the files can easily be edited in an arbitrary text editor? It doesn't make any practical sense... Even if you encode the text somehow, its presence would still stick out like a much larger sore thumb than, say, a message hidden in a JPG file.
You might have a point except the market for Xbox games (yes, even the lowly 2nd place Xbox) is much larger than the market for PC games.
In any case, most 'exclusive' console games come out for the PC anyway if the developer/publisher thinks they will make enough money to bother with the release.
Not only is this old news (I remember hearing about how keyboards are more germy than toilets years and years ago), but its also not even that surprising if you stop to think about it, as the average toilet is disinfected quite regularly while the average workstation/keyboard is almost never even subjected to a basic dusting or wash, let alone a disinfectant.
Article should be entitled "They don't make games I like anymore", because that is his real argument. Just because there are lots of rehash games released doesn't mean anything about the state of the business -- all economic signs point to the game industry getting bigger and bigger and making even more money as it lures an ever-widening mainstream audience away from TV and movies.
And his argument about the original game generation getting older? Man, that's just moronic, IMO. Someone may want to let this guy know that people are still having kids, these kids are still growing up, and --- guess what? playing video games. Not only that, but more are playing these days than ever before, especially as gaming is no longer seen as a lonely geek thing with all the associated stigma of that.
I do agree with certain aspects of his article, but we all have to remember that we were blessed to live through the birth stages of videogaming. Of *course* after that period of rapid change things are going to solidify and we're going to end up with less pure innovation -- this happens in every industry and even in every creative medium. But that doesn't mean new ideas and new technologies wont burst through every now and then to revitalize things... That's just the normal cycle of how these things work, get used to it....
I have one friend who's been working in switzerland for a few years now, and another who's trying to go over, too. Better job, better wages, better food, better air, hotter men... ahem
And that has *what* to do with someone moving to India for a job? Switzerland isn't a third world country, India is (soon enough it won't be, and I don't mean this as an insult... but technically by economic standards it still is third world).
linux is stable, windows is not.
Been living under a rock? The whole Windows being unstable issue went away back in 1999.
linux can be secure, windows can not.
Actually neither can be secure. What a dumb statement.
I'm no big fan of Microsoft, but why bother posting things like this? It doesn't help the Linux-users case when zealots are just mouthing off nonsense like 'Windows is unstable'.
I know this will be modded down as flamebait very quickly here on Slashdot, but what is it with all the whiney sysadmins? I mean, yeah this site is humor-biased, but the underlying clueless n00b RTFM attitude is there loud and clear.
From my perspective, a sysadmin whining about clueless non-techie users is like a doctor complaining about all the damn sick people that keep bothering him. Isn't it their job to, you know, office service and tech expertise (or diagnosis and medicine in the doctor case) to those people?
If there weren't so many tech-clueless people in the world, sysadmins would have no jobs... Cry me a fucking river, guys (and girls).
Seems like whenever I use a friend/family member's computer, their systems are infested with Spyware -- 5 redundent "search" toolbars they never asked for, random popups whenever they open a web browser (no matter what web page) and all sorts of other nasty crap...
I guess my point is I'm surprised they only found stuff on 1 in 20 in a campus enviornment..I'd have bet on it being more like 18 in 20 myself, based on experience.
While marked Funny, I think this is absolutely true. This idea also presents itself in movie releases. Witness the Year of the Asteroid Films or the Year of the Volcano Films, etc.
When people look at the failures of OSS/FS, they seldom mention licening issues, despite the fact that these are one of the major barriers to OSS/FS adoption. If the people who are creating the licenses can't even agree on them being compatible or not, how is a company supposed to judge this? And if they can't judge this for sure, how do you expect them to use any of this software, when it potentially opens them up to legal risk?
The OSS/FS movements really need to get their licensing 'ducks' in a row...
Despite the fact that I could have legitimately signed up for this, for the Microsoft rebates, and various other class-action settlements, I absolutely refuse to do so. The vast majority of class action lawsuits in America these days are just as big a scam as anything the RIAA or Microsoft has ever pulled, and I refuse to be a part of them. Score 1 for the consumers? No, score 1 for the lawyers who walked away with millions. Score nothing for the consumers who walk away with peanuts and no real change in the way business is being done.
Because Quake is old, and when it was released, most players were still on 28.8 modem connections. In other words: a lot of stuff was left on the client for the purpose of saving bandwidth.
You're essentially right, but I have to point out that the problem won't go away with 28.8 modems. Even on very fat broadband connections, aimbots remain and will continue to remain a problem that requires obfuscation on the client-side. Until we have networks so fast and latency free that the 3D rendering occurs on the server and the server sends full frames of pre-rendered graphics to the client (note: this day is a long way off, if ever) you'll have this problem.
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The local networks, CNN, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Comedy Central (Daily Show, South Park), for me please. Hold the 50 different shopping networks, hold the various family values (PAX, etc) channels, hold FOX News...
It would? I got kind of annoyed at the 2.5 minute data generation time, and that is on my 2.6 ghz 800 mhz FSB Pentium 4.
Not to mention that all the art in games would become very boring if it were all procedurally generated by a programmer rather than laid out by real artists and level designers.
Comparing what is essentially a procedurally generated demo with some interactivity to a real game is apples to oranges.
You almost certainly are. My email address is xxx@yahoo.com, where xxx are replaced by three other letters. Presumably because of the short length and the popular yahoo domain I constantly get artifacts in my mailbox that point to my address having been used by spam-bots.. usually in the form of bounce messages or auto-responder messages to people I'm certain I've never emailed, particularly not with subject lines containing words like "CHEAP V1AGR4!!!".
I hate to come off as the party pooper, but this joke is: A) Very Old (predates all of these tech companies and is probably older than than poster -- used to be told about college students, navy/army, various other competing entities). B) Scientifically suspect. Even if you don't piss on your hands, handling your johnson exposes your hands to coliform bacteria that is generally harmless to yourself but could be a problem for others. So even if you don't piss on your hands, you should still wash them before you go around touching everything at work, you dirty hippy.
Stating the obvious here, but pretty much an incident is preventable given circumstances X, Y and Z. But in the real world we have to make decisions based on things like economic factors.
Life is too short to be bored.
This is a cool project. Windows is awesome. It is good to finally see Linux users realizing that the Windows UI is the best one there is and adapting to use it.
GPL is for gays only.
Nitpicking the transcription of a Monty Python skit in a Slashdot post, eh? Trying to win those last few Dork Points to put you over the top in the Dork of the Year contest?
Steganography? Are you going for a keyword karma whoring? Because your post is just silly. Who would try to embed some secret information in an XML file when the whole purpose of XML is so the files can easily be edited in an arbitrary text editor? It doesn't make any practical sense... Even if you encode the text somehow, its presence would still stick out like a much larger sore thumb than, say, a message hidden in a JPG file.
In any case, most 'exclusive' console games come out for the PC anyway if the developer/publisher thinks they will make enough money to bother with the release.
Not only is this old news (I remember hearing about how keyboards are more germy than toilets years and years ago), but its also not even that surprising if you stop to think about it, as the average toilet is disinfected quite regularly while the average workstation/keyboard is almost never even subjected to a basic dusting or wash, let alone a disinfectant.
Dork.
And his argument about the original game generation getting older? Man, that's just moronic, IMO. Someone may want to let this guy know that people are still having kids, these kids are still growing up, and --- guess what? playing video games. Not only that, but more are playing these days than ever before, especially as gaming is no longer seen as a lonely geek thing with all the associated stigma of that.
I do agree with certain aspects of his article, but we all have to remember that we were blessed to live through the birth stages of videogaming. Of *course* after that period of rapid change things are going to solidify and we're going to end up with less pure innovation -- this happens in every industry and even in every creative medium. But that doesn't mean new ideas and new technologies wont burst through every now and then to revitalize things... That's just the normal cycle of how these things work, get used to it....
Hard to be a consumer when you're unemployed, isn't it?
I have one friend who's been working in switzerland for a few years now, and another who's trying to go over, too. Better job, better wages, better food, better air, hotter men... ahem And that has *what* to do with someone moving to India for a job? Switzerland isn't a third world country, India is (soon enough it won't be, and I don't mean this as an insult... but technically by economic standards it still is third world).
linux is stable, windows is not. Been living under a rock? The whole Windows being unstable issue went away back in 1999. linux can be secure, windows can not. Actually neither can be secure. What a dumb statement. I'm no big fan of Microsoft, but why bother posting things like this? It doesn't help the Linux-users case when zealots are just mouthing off nonsense like 'Windows is unstable'.
And all of them are idiots since 32 MB of memory costs a lot less than $200.
From my perspective, a sysadmin whining about clueless non-techie users is like a doctor complaining about all the damn sick people that keep bothering him. Isn't it their job to, you know, office service and tech expertise (or diagnosis and medicine in the doctor case) to those people?
If there weren't so many tech-clueless people in the world, sysadmins would have no jobs... Cry me a fucking river, guys (and girls).
I guess my point is I'm surprised they only found stuff on 1 in 20 in a campus enviornment..I'd have bet on it being more like 18 in 20 myself, based on experience.
While marked Funny, I think this is absolutely true. This idea also presents itself in movie releases. Witness the Year of the Asteroid Films or the Year of the Volcano Films, etc.
The OSS/FS movements really need to get their licensing 'ducks' in a row...
Despite the fact that I could have legitimately signed up for this, for the Microsoft rebates, and various other class-action settlements, I absolutely refuse to do so. The vast majority of class action lawsuits in America these days are just as big a scam as anything the RIAA or Microsoft has ever pulled, and I refuse to be a part of them. Score 1 for the consumers? No, score 1 for the lawyers who walked away with millions. Score nothing for the consumers who walk away with peanuts and no real change in the way business is being done.
You're essentially right, but I have to point out that the problem won't go away with 28.8 modems. Even on very fat broadband connections, aimbots remain and will continue to remain a problem that requires obfuscation on the client-side. Until we have networks so fast and latency free that the 3D rendering occurs on the server and the server sends full frames of pre-rendered graphics to the client (note: this day is a long way off, if ever) you'll have this problem.