The monsters can dodge, hide behind things, lay down covering fire for each other, use the map's layout to surround enemies, and generally disguise the fact that they're controlled by rules. Also it avoids the fallacy this guy pointed out of having a single man defeat thousands of heavily armed monsters: Unreal's scenario only pits you against 1 or 2 enemies at a time, and a large group really will overwhelm a player.
I don't know for certain, but it's very likely that all UN members must obey resolutions passed by the UN as a whole. Break those and you'll be breaking the law in your country automatically.
To clarify QT4's streaming: It's not a new codec, it's a new track type and delivery protocol. *Any* file Quicktime can play can become a streaming movie, including (I assume) MP3s. The main disadvantage is that right now they must be served off a Mac OS X machine.
The media is so hypocritical. They run news shows on how somewhat violent games are destroying our children interspliced with advertisements for their outrageously violent "specials" on car crashes, riots, and bloodsports. "See these criminals smash cars and run down pedestrians while we stand by and videotape it!" Something else no one has really pointed out is that games actually have a *therapeutic*(sp?) effect on children. I began my addiction to gaming in its many violent forms in high school, when I was feeling exactly the pressures that drove the Trenchcoat Mafia over the edge. Virtual combat was an outlet, where I could work off rage without resorting to physical violence. I remember many times where I came perilously close to simply putting my fist through the wall, but I chose to attack pixels instead of things that feel pain. Perhaps if tried to encourage virtual violence instead of suppressing every form of emotional pressure relief fewer teenagers would go ballistic, to put it tritely.
What I wanna know is, how come when Apple announced the iMac everyone said "That's stupid", but now that a big PC company literally clones the iMac everyone says "That's a good idea after all."
I agree with the original poster. The ability to upgrade and repurpose a complex tool outweighs the fact that it may not be quite as good as a dedicated instrument. I own a Swiss Army knife myself, and I haven't had much use for my screwdriver, scissors, or various other tools except in extreme situations (very small screws, cutting cardboard, etc.)
Technically, it's "not allowed to", not "can't". Such a Quake TC exists, available from any moderately disreputable mod site.
Geez, have a sensa humor!
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You and I know that its' what's under the hood that matters. Therefore we can ignore the case. Joe Sixpack doesn't know jack about G3s and bus speeds, but wants a nice case. Apple aimed it at him, so it gets a nice case (yes, I like it.) QED.
So why quote Shakespeare? He wouldn't know the GPL if it bit him in the ass. Gibson may not be addicted to the net or even base his technology on reality, but that doesn't make his writing bad or any less relevant. The particular quote was very applicable here.
Of course not, but the law exists and as a US corporation Apple is required to ensure that its products obey it, and it will probably be held responsible if someone breaks that law with their products. Yes, they're just covering their own ass, but that particular clause is just a repeat of a US law that would hold even if it wasn't written into the license.
This level of hype is not unusual. All new TV shows, especially midseason launches like this one, get hyped more than Win2000. When taken out of context (as.ram files from the Futurama Archive) the previews look very good, and I trust Matt Groening to make another great show. Too bad they won't leave it in the 8:30 Sunday (ET) slot...
This comment could just as easily have been aimed at 1960s computers, and see where they've taken us. Quite often, something is just so newfangled that even though no one quite knows what to do with it, once its built new techniques and applications will be invented for it. I'm sure that the concept of/. itself would sound as ludicrous 40 years ago as space technology 40 years hence sounds now.
Software patents should be *restricted*, maybe, but not done away with altogether. I agree totally that patents on downloading music and similar are stupid, but that doesn't mean no one may make money off developing software. If a company sinks thousands of dollars and years into developing a certain program, or even an algorithm, assuming it's unique and new enough, they deserve to get something out of it.
Something none of the Cassini protestors seem to have noticed is that in space, all objects obey Newtonian meechanics perfectly (at typical sppeds of course.) Therefore, any malfunction in the probe's electronics, even a total breakdown of its onboard computer, will not alter its course by a millimeter. I suppose one of the thrusters could be permanently jammed in the ON position, but the odds that such a random occurrence would set the probe on a collision course with Earth are literally a trillion to one. We're talking astronomical distances here.
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The monsters can dodge, hide behind things, lay down covering fire for each other, use the map's layout to surround enemies, and generally disguise the fact that they're controlled by rules. Also it avoids the fallacy this guy pointed out of having a single man defeat thousands of heavily armed monsters: Unreal's scenario only pits you against 1 or 2 enemies at a time, and a large group really will overwhelm a player.
See subject. (No, I'm not secretly an NSA agent on damage control.)
I don't know for certain, but it's very likely that all UN members must obey resolutions passed by the UN as a whole. Break those and you'll be breaking the law in your country automatically.
I think the point of the second part is to combat the practice of buying someone's name at NSI rates and scalping them for $K,000. See www.q3a.com.
To clarify QT4's streaming: It's not a new codec, it's a new track type and delivery protocol. *Any* file Quicktime can play can become a streaming movie, including (I assume) MP3s. The main disadvantage is that right now they must be served off a Mac OS X machine.
The media is so hypocritical. They run news shows on how somewhat violent games are destroying our children interspliced with advertisements for their outrageously violent "specials" on car crashes, riots, and bloodsports. "See these criminals smash cars and run down pedestrians while we stand by and videotape it!" Something else no one has really pointed out is that games actually have a *therapeutic*(sp?) effect on children. I began my addiction to gaming in its many violent forms in high school, when I was feeling exactly the pressures that drove the Trenchcoat Mafia over the edge. Virtual combat was an outlet, where I could work off rage without resorting to physical violence. I remember many times where I came perilously close to simply putting my fist through the wall, but I chose to attack pixels instead of things that feel pain. Perhaps if tried to encourage virtual violence instead of suppressing every form of emotional pressure relief fewer teenagers would go ballistic, to put it tritely.
What I wanna know is, how come when Apple announced the iMac everyone said "That's stupid", but now that a big PC company literally clones the iMac everyone says "That's a good idea after all."
I agree with the original poster. The ability to upgrade and repurpose a complex tool outweighs the fact that it may not be quite as good as a dedicated instrument. I own a Swiss Army knife myself, and I haven't had much use for my screwdriver, scissors, or various other tools except in extreme situations (very small screws, cutting cardboard, etc.)
Quake is the codename of an entity sending stuff to attack Earth (again). The entire plot of Quake is a half-page in the CD-sized manual.
Technically, it's "not allowed to", not "can't". Such a Quake TC exists, available from any moderately disreputable mod site.
You and I know that its' what's under the hood that matters. Therefore we can ignore the case. Joe Sixpack doesn't know jack about G3s and bus speeds, but wants a nice case. Apple aimed it at him, so it gets a nice case (yes, I like it.) QED.
So why quote Shakespeare? He wouldn't know the GPL if it bit him in the ass. Gibson may not be addicted to the net or even base his technology on reality, but that doesn't make his writing bad or any less relevant. The particular quote was very applicable here.
Of course not, but the law exists and as a US corporation Apple is required to ensure that its products obey it, and it will probably be held responsible if someone breaks that law with their products. Yes, they're just covering their own ass, but that particular clause is just a repeat of a US law that would hold even if it wasn't written into the license.
This level of hype is not unusual. All new TV shows, especially midseason launches like this one, get hyped more than Win2000. When taken out of context (as .ram files from the Futurama Archive) the previews look very good, and I trust Matt Groening to make another great show. Too bad they won't leave it in the 8:30 Sunday (ET) slot...
FYI, in Apple's 1984 commercial, the last thing Big Brother says before he's smashed by the upstart Macintosh is "We Shall Prevail." Eerie...
This comment could just as easily have been aimed at 1960s computers, and see where they've taken us. Quite often, something is just so newfangled that even though no one quite knows what to do with it, once its built new techniques and applications will be invented for it. I'm sure that the concept of /. itself would sound as ludicrous 40 years ago as space technology 40 years hence sounds now.
No flame, just the funniest topic I've seen in a long time...
Software patents should be *restricted*, maybe, but not done away with altogether. I agree totally that patents on downloading music and similar are stupid, but that doesn't mean no one may make money off developing software. If a company sinks thousands of dollars and years into developing a certain program, or even an algorithm, assuming it's unique and new enough, they deserve to get something out of it.
"Of course, NASA claims this will never happen"
Something none of the Cassini protestors seem to have noticed is that in space, all objects obey Newtonian meechanics perfectly (at typical sppeds of course.) Therefore, any malfunction in the probe's electronics, even a total breakdown of its onboard computer, will not alter its course by a millimeter. I suppose one of the thrusters could be permanently jammed in the ON position, but the odds that such a random occurrence would set the probe on a collision course with Earth are literally a trillion to one. We're talking astronomical distances here.