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Max Payne 2 Reviewed
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· Score: 4, Insightful
> and can build suspense like in a good movie.
> There seems to be a lack of real story telling and artistic talent
> cookie cutter
You've never played Max Payne, have you?;) We're talking about a game that set a bar for what graphics should be in a FPS. Not artistic? Look at the amazingly cinematic way the levels are laid out. The action actually flows like a movie. Lack of storytelling? You don't have to listen to me to find someone who thinks the story was simply incredible.
And "cookie cutter?" That's just laughable. Sure, the game follows certain basic FPS traits (lots of guns, physics gets raped), but to say it's cookie cutter is to say that Star Wars is bad just because it uses the hackneyed "anonymous farm boy turns out to be universe-saving hero" schtick.
At the risk of being Offtopic... I know it's fashionable to bash MS and their products, but this statement is simply silly. What you're referring to MS doing with the X-Box is called a "loss leader." They make the platform at a loss with the hopes of making up the dividends on the individual games. All the major consoles do the exact same thing as do manufacturers of printers (ever wonder why you can get a printer for 80 bucks, but the carts are 15-30 bucks each, not to mention paper?), and several other industries.
Comparing this to the RIAA subpoenas and lawsuits is just silly, and is pretty much karma-whoring via MS bashing.
Your assertion that plugging ANY 1.1 device into your computer's USB 2.0 ports should slow the whole thing down is slightly erroneous.
The reason plugging a 1.1 device into a USB Hub that then plugs into a -SINGLE- USB 2.0 port slows everything else on the Hub down is that the Hub is plugged into a single port, which has its own bus. You slow that individual USB bus down to 1.1 speeds. The other USB 2.0 ports on your computer have a separate communications bus that continue to operate at the expected 2.0 speeds.
With certain computers/mobos I'm not sure if it's still common practice for every port to have its own separate USB bus, but I do know it's at least common for "Front" USB ports and "Rear" USB ports (that is: Physical location on the case) to have a separate I/O bus.
You miss my point. I wasn't trying to make a specific example by using Belgium, and I was aware they have several official languages. For the sake of argument, let's pretend I said: "Probably around the same time Mexico renames their official language Mexican."
I'm not trying to make a point about English as the language of science (although I see no problem with it), I'm simply saying that Americans take flak for not calling our language "American." Why should we?
If and when we set up a long-term military base there, they will. I've had several friends who were stationed in South Korea, and many of them *Gasp!* speak Korean! Imagine!
I'm sure many of them already speak a bit of Arabic, and those who worked with the Kurdish Pesh Murgas probably *gasp!* know a bit of Kurdish. Right now, however, they're probably more concerned with not getting killed in the last dying gasps of a tyrannical regime.
It's interesting to see how, in the absence of an actual point, people bash American foreign policy. It's almost like a new form of karma whoring. If you don't agree with America, fine, but don't bash the troops, bash the rich old white men that send our children out to die.
But rather, "How much free publicity will they get when someone does?" Don't get me wrong, making the world's largest billboard will get them enough press (especially with its "Smart" aspects), but when someone DOES hack it? They'll no doubt take some sort of winkwink-nudgenudge pro-geek-community stance on it and rake in the street cred.
Another thing that I've been wondering about is why Smith tried to contaminate Neo with his blood - remember how in Reloaded the man "possessed" by Smith was cutting his hand when he was about to shake Neo's hand - only to be stopped at the last minute. My guess is that in Revolutions he will get his chance.
My take on that was that he was simply going to assassinate Neo, and that the Smith clone that made it through was cutting himself simply to see what -real- human pain feels like. Remember that the Agents have always simply been able to "phase" out of their host bodies before anything untoward can happen to them, and a Smith now finds itself in a -real- human body.
I guess the best way I can think to explain it is this: Imagine someone who is blind from birth suddenly being able to see again. People may have tried to explain how things appear to them, but that doesn't prepare them for the wonder of actually seeing it for themselves. This, to me, seems a masochistic version of the same idea.
The AC is obviously ignoring the fact that when they build those malls and Wal-Marts, they hire people to work in them. Those big bad rich people have just created a nice stack of jobs for the community.
It's easy to look at the statement "Joe Bob owns a mall," and immediately assume he's making money hand over fist. What about utility cost? What about employment costs? What about security costs? Maintenance? And the biggie: Liability insurance.
Now look at how many people Joe Bob has put to work. Those people take Joe Bob's money and feed their families. They buy cars. They get health care. And when people buy things in Joe Bob's mall? That money goes back into the economy and goes to help those that are working to produce those products.
Someone has an extremely sheltered and liberal-influenced view of how the economy works.
...that it's not the parents of the kids that are suing Take Two and Sony, it's one of the people that was wounded and survived the shooting. If you read the article it states that "Miss Bede and the family of Aaron Hamel plan to sue Take-Two Interactive Software, which publishes Grand Theft Auto, for liability in a wrongful death lawsuit. Take-Two owns Rockstar Games, which is based in Edinburgh and designed the first version of the game in 1997. Sony will also be named in the lawsuit, because Grand Theft Auto was made exclusively for its Play- Station consoles. Sony declined to comment on the case."
It doesn't actually say anything in THAT article about the parents of the kids suing anyone. Improper titling, or false attribution?
RTFC (Complaint). They're not alleging that they shouldn't have to pay to broadcast the songs. They're alleging that the rate they're forced to pay is exclusionary and was established through bad-faith negotiation in the original RIAA/Yahoo! agreement to set a benchmark for a future CARP proceeding. They're further alleging that VOW, de facto arbiter of webcasters, likewise negotiated in bad faith to obtain an even worse rate for them. They're saying that the rates charged by the RIAA for distribution are exclusionary.
Come on people, think about this. These are the same people that charge 18 dollars for a lousy hunk of plastic. "Exclusionary Distribution Rates" is something we're all very familiar with from the RIAA.
For the love of God, mod parent Insightful. He's pointed out a vast majority of the problems that are evident in our school system.
I knew many people in high school who knew they wanted to be teachers. It occured to me that these people might one day be the folks educating my children, and the way they're being taught is what would most likely influence their own style of teaching. I could only pray they'd have more teachers exhibiting the sort of ideals mentioned in the parent post.
In short: School is not for the benefit of the median child; school is for the benefit of every child.
Wait... now they're calling what IBM "stole" from them Trade Secrets? Isn't the rule with Trade Secrets such that if you don't protect them and they become knowledge it's your own fault? I thought they were claiming a violation of copyright, which would presumably have a bit more protection from courts.
Am I correct here, or am I misreading this whole thing?
If the RIAA grabbed these chunks and did the XORing themselves to figure out the original, could we then prosecute them under the DMCA for circumventing an encryption device?
I love the smell of poetic justice in the morning.
I'm one of the geeks that sells geeks the toys they use to perpetrate their geekery. I talk to lots of people (from geeks right on down to ordinary schmoes) who have questions about Bluetooth, and seem generally excited when they find out it works. I have to take pains with every single customer (who's not a geek) to explain that Bluetooth is not WiFi. It is not meant to replace WiFi.
From the article: "It's only now that people are discovering that Bluetooth's focus on eliminating wires means still having the limitations of wires in that you can only connect between nearby devices." That's the point. Bluetooth is good for what it's good for, and not much else: a Personal Area Network, or Office Area Network. Sync your PDA wirelessly. Print wirelessly. Get a Sony Ericsson T68i with Bluetooth, sign up for internet on it, and use your nifty Bluetooth PDA to check your email anywhere you can get a cell signal.
Whether knowing anything about the occurrence of twin primes has any bearing on crypto, I have no idea.
I have very little knowledge of primes and cryptography, but I do know that the holy grail is the search for larger primes.
Could the importance of twin primes be that if a corrolary is found that will allow one to predict higher prime numbers because of the n that separates them, it would then become easier to "discover" larger and larger prime numbers?
Homeless?! What the fuck! How the hell is the guy going to afford 1300 items, plus the velcro, a back pack, and other necessities he's used!.
Yeah, because as we've all learned from Napster, the latest download sites for the new Harry Potter movie, and Winona Ryder; everyone pays for everything they have!
Here's betting that if he's a real geek? He went Dumpster Diving for most of it.
...and patch it every few days?
As opposed to Linux's vaunted "Kernel of the Week" club? Feel free to mod me Troll or OT if you like... Sure, you don't have to pay anything for the upgrades, but let's face facts: Many people have paid just as much for Windows 2k as they have for RedHat or any other distro. I like Linux, and I like the thought of it breaking into the desktop market in a major way, but is the best way to do that making comments about OS patches when they're just as common in Linux?
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> and can build suspense like in a good movie.
;) We're talking about a game that set a bar for what graphics should be in a FPS. Not artistic? Look at the amazingly cinematic way the levels are laid out. The action actually flows like a movie. Lack of storytelling? You don't have to listen to me to find someone who thinks the story was simply incredible.
> There seems to be a lack of real story telling and artistic talent
> cookie cutter
You've never played Max Payne, have you?
And "cookie cutter?" That's just laughable. Sure, the game follows certain basic FPS traits (lots of guns, physics gets raped), but to say it's cookie cutter is to say that Star Wars is bad just because it uses the hackneyed "anonymous farm boy turns out to be universe-saving hero" schtick.
That never stopped the xbox. :)
At the risk of being Offtopic... I know it's fashionable to bash MS and their products, but this statement is simply silly. What you're referring to MS doing with the X-Box is called a "loss leader." They make the platform at a loss with the hopes of making up the dividends on the individual games. All the major consoles do the exact same thing as do manufacturers of printers (ever wonder why you can get a printer for 80 bucks, but the carts are 15-30 bucks each, not to mention paper?), and several other industries.
Comparing this to the RIAA subpoenas and lawsuits is just silly, and is pretty much karma-whoring via MS bashing.
Your assertion that plugging ANY 1.1 device into your computer's USB 2.0 ports should slow the whole thing down is slightly erroneous.
The reason plugging a 1.1 device into a USB Hub that then plugs into a -SINGLE- USB 2.0 port slows everything else on the Hub down is that the Hub is plugged into a single port, which has its own bus. You slow that individual USB bus down to 1.1 speeds. The other USB 2.0 ports on your computer have a separate communications bus that continue to operate at the expected 2.0 speeds.
With certain computers/mobos I'm not sure if it's still common practice for every port to have its own separate USB bus, but I do know it's at least common for "Front" USB ports and "Rear" USB ports (that is: Physical location on the case) to have a separate I/O bus.
You miss my point. I wasn't trying to make a specific example by using Belgium, and I was aware they have several official languages. For the sake of argument, let's pretend I said: "Probably around the same time Mexico renames their official language Mexican."
I'm not trying to make a point about English as the language of science (although I see no problem with it), I'm simply saying that Americans take flak for not calling our language "American." Why should we?
That will probably happen around the same time Belgians rename their official language to "Belgian."
If and when we set up a long-term military base there, they will. I've had several friends who were stationed in South Korea, and many of them *Gasp!* speak Korean! Imagine!
I'm sure many of them already speak a bit of Arabic, and those who worked with the Kurdish Pesh Murgas probably *gasp!* know a bit of Kurdish. Right now, however, they're probably more concerned with not getting killed in the last dying gasps of a tyrannical regime.
It's interesting to see how, in the absence of an actual point, people bash American foreign policy. It's almost like a new form of karma whoring. If you don't agree with America, fine, but don't bash the troops, bash the rich old white men that send our children out to die.
..."How soon before someone hacks it?"
But rather, "How much free publicity will they get when someone does?" Don't get me wrong, making the world's largest billboard will get them enough press (especially with its "Smart" aspects), but when someone DOES hack it? They'll no doubt take some sort of winkwink-nudgenudge pro-geek-community stance on it and rake in the street cred.
Ain't capitalism grand?
Another thing that I've been wondering about is why Smith tried to contaminate Neo with his blood - remember how in Reloaded the man "possessed" by Smith was cutting his hand when he was about to shake Neo's hand - only to be stopped at the last minute. My guess is that in Revolutions he will get his chance.
My take on that was that he was simply going to assassinate Neo, and that the Smith clone that made it through was cutting himself simply to see what -real- human pain feels like. Remember that the Agents have always simply been able to "phase" out of their host bodies before anything untoward can happen to them, and a Smith now finds itself in a -real- human body.
I guess the best way I can think to explain it is this: Imagine someone who is blind from birth suddenly being able to see again. People may have tried to explain how things appear to them, but that doesn't prepare them for the wonder of actually seeing it for themselves. This, to me, seems a masochistic version of the same idea.
Or I could be reading too much in to it.
The AC is obviously ignoring the fact that when they build those malls and Wal-Marts, they hire people to work in them. Those big bad rich people have just created a nice stack of jobs for the community.
It's easy to look at the statement "Joe Bob owns a mall," and immediately assume he's making money hand over fist. What about utility cost? What about employment costs? What about security costs? Maintenance? And the biggie: Liability insurance.
Now look at how many people Joe Bob has put to work. Those people take Joe Bob's money and feed their families. They buy cars. They get health care. And when people buy things in Joe Bob's mall? That money goes back into the economy and goes to help those that are working to produce those products.
Someone has an extremely sheltered and liberal-influenced view of how the economy works.
...that it's not the parents of the kids that are suing Take Two and Sony, it's one of the people that was wounded and survived the shooting. If you read the article it states that "Miss Bede and the family of Aaron Hamel plan to sue Take-Two Interactive Software, which publishes Grand Theft Auto, for liability in a wrongful death lawsuit. Take-Two owns Rockstar Games, which is based in Edinburgh and designed the first version of the game in 1997. Sony will also be named in the lawsuit, because Grand Theft Auto was made exclusively for its Play- Station consoles. Sony declined to comment on the case."
It doesn't actually say anything in THAT article about the parents of the kids suing anyone. Improper titling, or false attribution?
Slashdot SHOULD CREATE AN SCO SECTION.
As has been pointed out many times: There is one. Uncheck "Caldera".
RTFC (Complaint). They're not alleging that they shouldn't have to pay to broadcast the songs. They're alleging that the rate they're forced to pay is exclusionary and was established through bad-faith negotiation in the original RIAA/Yahoo! agreement to set a benchmark for a future CARP proceeding. They're further alleging that VOW, de facto arbiter of webcasters, likewise negotiated in bad faith to obtain an even worse rate for them. They're saying that the rates charged by the RIAA for distribution are exclusionary.
Come on people, think about this. These are the same people that charge 18 dollars for a lousy hunk of plastic. "Exclusionary Distribution Rates" is something we're all very familiar with from the RIAA.
For the love of God, mod parent Insightful. He's pointed out a vast majority of the problems that are evident in our school system.
I knew many people in high school who knew they wanted to be teachers. It occured to me that these people might one day be the folks educating my children, and the way they're being taught is what would most likely influence their own style of teaching. I could only pray they'd have more teachers exhibiting the sort of ideals mentioned in the parent post.
In short: School is not for the benefit of the median child; school is for the benefit of every child.
Wait... now they're calling what IBM "stole" from them Trade Secrets? Isn't the rule with Trade Secrets such that if you don't protect them and they become knowledge it's your own fault? I thought they were claiming a violation of copyright, which would presumably have a bit more protection from courts.
Am I correct here, or am I misreading this whole thing?
If the RIAA grabbed these chunks and did the XORing themselves to figure out the original, could we then prosecute them under the DMCA for circumventing an encryption device?
I love the smell of poetic justice in the morning.
..."Deep Blue"...
It was "Have Blue," just for the record.
Common misconception. The original development started using the Quake I engine.
...You sir, are an idiot.
I'm one of the geeks that sells geeks the toys they use to perpetrate their geekery. I talk to lots of people (from geeks right on down to ordinary schmoes) who have questions about Bluetooth, and seem generally excited when they find out it works. I have to take pains with every single customer (who's not a geek) to explain that Bluetooth is not WiFi. It is not meant to replace WiFi.
From the article: "It's only now that people are discovering that Bluetooth's focus on eliminating wires means still having the limitations of wires in that you can only connect between nearby devices." That's the point. Bluetooth is good for what it's good for, and not much else: a Personal Area Network, or Office Area Network. Sync your PDA wirelessly. Print wirelessly. Get a Sony Ericsson T68i with Bluetooth, sign up for internet on it, and use your nifty Bluetooth PDA to check your email anywhere you can get a cell signal.
Bluetooth is about as dead as *BSD is.
Whether knowing anything about the occurrence of twin primes has any bearing on crypto, I have no idea.
I have very little knowledge of primes and cryptography, but I do know that the holy grail is the search for larger primes.
Could the importance of twin primes be that if a corrolary is found that will allow one to predict higher prime numbers because of the n that separates them, it would then become easier to "discover" larger and larger prime numbers?
will be using lingustic chicanery to obsfucate their metheodology
And they still won't be using spellcheckers.
If you scroll down the page you'll notice that they have more pictures from different angles that specifically show how they pulled off the illusion.
Cheers.
I'm not sure what entertains me more. The parent to this post, or the fact that it's modded 0 because Moderators don't understand why it's funny. =)
Homeless?! What the fuck! How the hell is the guy going to afford 1300 items, plus the velcro, a back pack, and other necessities he's used!.
Yeah, because as we've all learned from Napster, the latest download sites for the new Harry Potter movie, and Winona Ryder; everyone pays for everything they have!
Here's betting that if he's a real geek? He went Dumpster Diving for most of it.
...and patch it every few days? As opposed to Linux's vaunted "Kernel of the Week" club? Feel free to mod me Troll or OT if you like... Sure, you don't have to pay anything for the upgrades, but let's face facts: Many people have paid just as much for Windows 2k as they have for RedHat or any other distro. I like Linux, and I like the thought of it breaking into the desktop market in a major way, but is the best way to do that making comments about OS patches when they're just as common in Linux?