Opening up the source can be an entirely greedy venture, since you want to improve it, with a side-effect of making other people happy. Closing the source has its benefits, but then only your team can work on it to improve it, you're limiting the number of "man-hours" achievable.
People will play his game if it is fun, not because it is open source. At the same time his team can contribute to the open source libraries that they use, that's why they are open source... so they can be improved by the many people that want to use the libraries. People don't *use* his game, they *play* it.
They've overdone it with this surface prototype. Feeling the dice in your hands and rolling something real is a great part of D&D. One of the best parts of something like the surface is so that the DM doesn't have to whip out tons of poorly cropped A4 pages and waste time aligning them on the table. The surface could also do things such as answer questions about cover, range, blast/burst etc, without actually going about and performing any further combat calculations, ie, so that the players don't have to reach over and count out squares all the time. Also, as you mentioned the hidden line-of-sight fog-of-war effects are a superb addition.
Then there are games like BattleForge, where you need to spend money to become more powerful. Those that play for free will be easily defeated by those that spent money, almost irrespective of skill. This is quite a good strategy for the publishers/developers of the game, pay or be frustrated by defeat. I'd rather pay once and have an equal footing of "equipment" so that only skill is the discriminating factor.
CERN Security Agent 1: "Damn, there are going to be lay-offs. The scientists aren't performing criminal acts, we're useless, and there'll be funding cutbacks due to the recession." CERN Security Agent 2: "Ok, lets smear this guy as an al-Qaeda terrorist, maybe that will help."
- playing an FPS on a console is like playing the clarinet with your anus, - playing an FPS on a console is like masturbating in a straitjacket, - playing an FPS on a console is like watching the dungeons and dragons movie...
A lot of the researchers who work with viruses consider them to be alive... The people who argue that viruses aren't alive are almost inevitably non-biologists or biologists who don't work with viruses.
That's because it looks cooler on a grant application to say they are alive.
Interesting, perhaps they should introduce some kind of 000 texting and emailing feature (000@gov.au? they can set up routing to use a TLD like this if they really want, right?).
Depends on how you define "browser based". Quake Live really just uses the browser as a launch platform, it's not as if the game is written in JavaScript. The question is whether this MMOG will be purely run inside the browser, with 2D graphics using GWT style libraries, or will it be like Quake Live which i'd conjecture isn't really browser based.
I agree completely. I too stopped playing when we hit 60 and started raiding. I had the advantage of playing with 2 other friends, so the 5 player instances were done with 3 of us, and were quite challenging and very satisfying. Especially because we took the time to read the quests, and we even did a little humorous role-playing (D&D vets).
My first raid experience was crap, and the others weren't much better. It was just a case of the raid leader telling us exactly what the boss will do, what other creatures will spawn, and how we had to kill it. Well, how's that for a spoiler? Then we just followed the plan, how completely fucking boring. Don't get me wrong, I like team tactics etc, but to fill that void I play counter-strike.
They didn't "take" money from the guy who comes home at night and trades, that guy lost it in his stock market gambling. He wanted to get-rich-quick compared to the guy that comes home at night and spends time with his wife and kids. Also, not every winner in the stock market has a looser, since the market is generally on a rise. There are more winners than loosers, which is the reason anyone can put your money into a bank and get about 3-4% PA.
1) How did they judge the sexiness/hotness of fish? Did one of the scientist's say "Whoa! Look at her dorsal fin! This one's super sexy, throw her into the tank". Perhaps the male fish went for the ugly and easily accessible ones, and the sperm traveled faster in those? 2) How is this supposed to have anything to do with humans? 3) Why didn't Discovery News elaborate on the methods?
That is the short sighted view of programming. If you're designing user interfaces you need a mouse. If you want to use a mouse to scroll through documentation, access IDE options, open source files, quickly navigate through code etc, you need a mouse. Sure, if you're an uber autofelacious emacs/vi guru looking at nothing but a black terminal window coding in nothing but obfuscated c and swearing that everything can be done by the keyboard since you know 10,000 keyboard shortcuts, then yeah, maybe in your line of work of hacking the linux kernel you don't need a mouse. If you're one of the remaining 99.99994% *real* developers or software engineers, then you need a mouse.
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Opening up the source can be an entirely greedy venture, since you want to improve it, with a side-effect of making other people happy. Closing the source has its benefits, but then only your team can work on it to improve it, you're limiting the number of "man-hours" achievable.
People will play his game if it is fun, not because it is open source. At the same time his team can contribute to the open source libraries that they use, that's why they are open source... so they can be improved by the many people that want to use the libraries. People don't *use* his game, they *play* it.
+1
They've overdone it with this surface prototype. Feeling the dice in your hands and rolling something real is a great part of D&D.
One of the best parts of something like the surface is so that the DM doesn't have to whip out tons of poorly cropped A4 pages and waste time aligning them on the table. The surface could also do things such as answer questions about cover, range, blast/burst etc, without actually going about and performing any further combat calculations, ie, so that the players don't have to reach over and count out squares all the time. Also, as you mentioned the hidden line-of-sight fog-of-war effects are a superb addition.
Then there are games like BattleForge, where you need to spend money to become more powerful. Those that play for free will be easily defeated by those that spent money, almost irrespective of skill. This is quite a good strategy for the publishers/developers of the game, pay or be frustrated by defeat. I'd rather pay once and have an equal footing of "equipment" so that only skill is the discriminating factor.
CERN Security Agent 1: "Damn, there are going to be lay-offs. The scientists aren't performing criminal acts, we're useless, and there'll be funding cutbacks due to the recession."
CERN Security Agent 2: "Ok, lets smear this guy as an al-Qaeda terrorist, maybe that will help."
- playing an FPS on a console is like playing the clarinet with your anus,
- playing an FPS on a console is like masturbating in a straitjacket,
- playing an FPS on a console is like watching the dungeons and dragons movie...
Cudos to Ageia for creating something cool and selling it off at its peak price to a big dumb company just before it became worthless.
Actually, no...
We will however continue to pursue ways to effectively utilize GameGuard within Aion in the future.
So once you've payed for the game, they'll bring it back.
A lot of the researchers who work with viruses consider them to be alive... The people who argue that viruses aren't alive are almost inevitably non-biologists or biologists who don't work with viruses.
That's because it looks cooler on a grant application to say they are alive.
An MMOFPS for XBox and PC? Sweeet, time to show those XBox fanboys just what a keyboard and mouse can do.
Interesting, perhaps they should introduce some kind of 000 texting and emailing feature (000@gov.au? they can set up routing to use a TLD like this if they really want, right?).
I agree with your points, but it's difficult to read when you mix these two words:
tough = resilient
though = despite the fact
Depends on how you define "browser based". Quake Live really just uses the browser as a launch platform, it's not as if the game is written in JavaScript. The question is whether this MMOG will be purely run inside the browser, with 2D graphics using GWT style libraries, or will it be like Quake Live which i'd conjecture isn't really browser based.
Every politician should undergo a statistics examination as a prerequisite.
I agree completely. I too stopped playing when we hit 60 and started raiding. I had the advantage of playing with 2 other friends, so the 5 player instances were done with 3 of us, and were quite challenging and very satisfying. Especially because we took the time to read the quests, and we even did a little humorous role-playing (D&D vets).
My first raid experience was crap, and the others weren't much better. It was just a case of the raid leader telling us exactly what the boss will do, what other creatures will spawn, and how we had to kill it. Well, how's that for a spoiler? Then we just followed the plan, how completely fucking boring. Don't get me wrong, I like team tactics etc, but to fill that void I play counter-strike.
Then came the expansion where they plagiarized an entire zone and enemies from The Dark Crystal.
I have noticed though that Whedon seems to have a foot fetish.
He spends a lot of time focusing his camera on women's feet.
Perhaps not a foot fetish, but Tarantino flattery.
move out of Chin..ahem.. Australia.
I realise I am likely to be charged with trolling [again!]...
Score:4, Interesting.
Yep, been there, done that. How easily reverse psychology works on the minds of Slashdotters.
They didn't "take" money from the guy who comes home at night and trades, that guy lost it in his stock market gambling. He wanted to get-rich-quick compared to the guy that comes home at night and spends time with his wife and kids. Also, not every winner in the stock market has a looser, since the market is generally on a rise. There are more winners than loosers, which is the reason anyone can put your money into a bank and get about 3-4% PA.
C++0++x
lol at flaimbait mod, looks like mod troll just had to use up his last point.
The mob is fickle, this will be forgotten in about a week by everyone who isn't a nerd, and then it's business as usual.
with the obvious selection... Cmdr Taco.
1) How did they judge the sexiness/hotness of fish? Did one of the scientist's say "Whoa! Look at her dorsal fin! This one's super sexy, throw her into the tank". Perhaps the male fish went for the ugly and easily accessible ones, and the sperm traveled faster in those?
2) How is this supposed to have anything to do with humans?
3) Why didn't Discovery News elaborate on the methods?
That is the short sighted view of programming. If you're designing user interfaces you need a mouse. If you want to use a mouse to scroll through documentation, access IDE options, open source files, quickly navigate through code etc, you need a mouse. Sure, if you're an uber autofelacious emacs/vi guru looking at nothing but a black terminal window coding in nothing but obfuscated c and swearing that everything can be done by the keyboard since you know 10,000 keyboard shortcuts, then yeah, maybe in your line of work of hacking the linux kernel you don't need a mouse. If you're one of the remaining 99.99994% *real* developers or software engineers, then you need a mouse.