That's why this is the Iterated PD Challenge, not just the classic PD. If the competitors only played ONE round of PD each, the contest would not be very interesting. Their past performance in the contest itself is part of the "history" they are using to evaluate their choices.
I've seen enough fan fiction to realize that it should be illegal, and punishable by death if possible.
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There's one major advantage of the controller over the mouse- Everyone is on a level playing field. There's no one stuck with their ancient two-button PS/2 mouse who can never get above a certain skill level. There's no one like you with a $300 "gaming mouse" and key sequences bound to six buttons. Everyone's using exactly the same (or extremely similar) input devices, so it's all about individual skill instead of who can build a better gaming rig.
(And this point applies even more so to connection, CPU, and graphics card.)
We've had professional sports for over a hundred years, and people still play those same games when their friends are over. Does that mean they are practicing to become pro athletes? No, they're just having fun. Life isn't an RPG with limited skill points, it's quite possible to spend your time earning nothing more than a few hours of fun and ignoring further implications of what you are doing.
This is being annoyingly offset by cross platform games that either take a lowest common denominator approach or just release somewhat stripped down inferior versions on the weaker platforms.
"Annoyingly"? There isn't really a third choice here- either the game looks the same on all platforms, or it doesn't. If it looks the same, it's going to look the same as the weakest platform- there are some things that some consoles simply cannot do, and the game can't do those things if it wants to stay consistent. Conversely, having more hardware capacity available allows more to be done per frame- why should the developer be forced to ignore that, and the player and extremely competitive gaming market have to put up with wasted cycles? If the core gameplay is identical across platforms (which it usually is), then the rest is just bells and whistles.
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You can enable login for the root account with the Netinfo Manager utility. Under previous versions of OS X you had to follow a long and slightly risky procedure to manually edit the user data; under Panther (and possible Jaguar) there is a handy "Enable root account" menu item.
This would be easy to do over Xbox Live if MS thought it was a big enough deal- they can do executable patches.
XBL is really the only place where this adapter could cause much disruption in the first place. It's easy to find out if someone is cheating during system link play (just go over there, take a look, and mock/smack him if necessary), and nobody cares if people use it in solo games.
This isn't *quite* like mark-and-sweep garbage collection. The additional ubiquitin just makes the protein "vulnerable" to the protein destroyers which are distributed throughout the body. The equivalent of the Java GC would be if the body marked proteins for a long period, then entered a relatively brief phase of rapid protein recycling, which AFAIK doesn't happen.
The only advantage of the mouse over a controller with well-designed aiming assistance (i.e. in Halo) is that you can turn much faster with the mouse. It would be trivial for the developer to directly limit your character's maximum turning rate, so you wouldn't go any faster no matter how fast you move the mouse.
Being completely informed in this modern world requires far more time than any single person has, let alone a person with a normal job and social life. That's why "politician" is a full-time job in and of itself. The problem is that people simply don't care about voting and don't believe that doing it will have any effect.
We already have B-list celebrities doing voting PSAs, video game characters isn't too far of a leap.
Bungie kept the Marathon franchise; they still own it and could use it if they wanted to. Still, there are too many inconsistencies and official denials for the games to be closely linked.
Most of the movie trailer images were from either multiplayer or the 2003 E3 trailer. And there was virtually no context from the movie- we don't know what the plot is and where it is going. And aside from the level itself, there's very little there that wasn't in Halo 1.
Regarding the Xbox- going from zero to battling for second place (depending on who you ask) is not exactly failure. The Xbox 2 is going to be interesting.
Every company uses income from the reliable divisions to fund new ventures that don't immediately show a profit. Microsoft just does it on a scale proportionate to their size.
The great thing about Bungie games is that neither the multiplayer (when present) nor single-player campaign is skimped on. The single-player campaign is not just a tutorial for multiplayer, and the multiplayer mode is not just throwing everyone into some random maze with weapons strewn around.
Bungie has been keeping Halo 2's single-player campaign almost totally secret; the first single-player screenshots are only just starting to appear in media, and virtually none of the plot has been made public. I can't wait for either mode. Now I have to go buy a Live kit...
It would cost a vast amount to add an RFID tag to every single sign that a car might potentially pass (i.e. every sign in the US), and continue to cost extra while the government is required to post both a sign and an RFID chip.
Church was only a single effect, but he was onscreen a LOT. There have also been color filters, distortions, the split-screen trick mentioned elsewhere, and more. I haven't watched the season 2 DVD with commentary yet, so I'm not sure about Halo PC.
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That's why this is the Iterated PD Challenge, not just the classic PD. If the competitors only played ONE round of PD each, the contest would not be very interesting. Their past performance in the contest itself is part of the "history" they are using to evaluate their choices.
I've seen enough fan fiction to realize that it should be illegal, and punishable by death if possible.
There's one major advantage of the controller over the mouse- Everyone is on a level playing field. There's no one stuck with their ancient two-button PS/2 mouse who can never get above a certain skill level. There's no one like you with a $300 "gaming mouse" and key sequences bound to six buttons. Everyone's using exactly the same (or extremely similar) input devices, so it's all about individual skill instead of who can build a better gaming rig.
(And this point applies even more so to connection, CPU, and graphics card.)
We've had professional sports for over a hundred years, and people still play those same games when their friends are over. Does that mean they are practicing to become pro athletes? No, they're just having fun. Life isn't an RPG with limited skill points, it's quite possible to spend your time earning nothing more than a few hours of fun and ignoring further implications of what you are doing.
Because it is not ever, ever going to happen.
If AMD and Intel sprayed all their CPUs with anthrax, would you buy a Mac?
This is being annoyingly offset by cross platform games that either take a lowest common denominator approach or just release somewhat stripped down inferior versions on the weaker platforms.
"Annoyingly"? There isn't really a third choice here- either the game looks the same on all platforms, or it doesn't. If it looks the same, it's going to look the same as the weakest platform- there are some things that some consoles simply cannot do, and the game can't do those things if it wants to stay consistent. Conversely, having more hardware capacity available allows more to be done per frame- why should the developer be forced to ignore that, and the player and extremely competitive gaming market have to put up with wasted cycles? If the core gameplay is identical across platforms (which it usually is), then the rest is just bells and whistles.
You can enable login for the root account with the Netinfo Manager utility. Under previous versions of OS X you had to follow a long and slightly risky procedure to manually edit the user data; under Panther (and possible Jaguar) there is a handy "Enable root account" menu item.
You don't need to do this to use sudo, of course.
Speed was actually pretty cool. Everything else I agree with.
This would be easy to do over Xbox Live if MS thought it was a big enough deal- they can do executable patches.
XBL is really the only place where this adapter could cause much disruption in the first place. It's easy to find out if someone is cheating during system link play (just go over there, take a look, and mock/smack him if necessary), and nobody cares if people use it in solo games.
This isn't *quite* like mark-and-sweep garbage collection. The additional ubiquitin just makes the protein "vulnerable" to the protein destroyers which are distributed throughout the body. The equivalent of the Java GC would be if the body marked proteins for a long period, then entered a relatively brief phase of rapid protein recycling, which AFAIK doesn't happen.
The only advantage of the mouse over a controller with well-designed aiming assistance (i.e. in Halo) is that you can turn much faster with the mouse. It would be trivial for the developer to directly limit your character's maximum turning rate, so you wouldn't go any faster no matter how fast you move the mouse.
Being completely informed in this modern world requires far more time than any single person has, let alone a person with a normal job and social life. That's why "politician" is a full-time job in and of itself. The problem is that people simply don't care about voting and don't believe that doing it will have any effect.
We already have B-list celebrities doing voting PSAs, video game characters isn't too far of a leap.
More and more games (on all platforms) are simply rendering cutscenes in the engine itself, which generally takes less disk space.
Bungie kept the Marathon franchise; they still own it and could use it if they wanted to. Still, there are too many inconsistencies and official denials for the games to be closely linked.
It would be (relatively) trivial to give the station a thruster system (if it doesn't have one already), and use that to counter the poo impulse.
Most of them will continue to work, just for the sake of making it into space on their own (the ones that have a reasonable chance, at least).
Most of the movie trailer images were from either multiplayer or the 2003 E3 trailer. And there was virtually no context from the movie- we don't know what the plot is and where it is going. And aside from the level itself, there's very little there that wasn't in Halo 1.
Regarding the Xbox- going from zero to battling for second place (depending on who you ask) is not exactly failure. The Xbox 2 is going to be interesting.
Every company uses income from the reliable divisions to fund new ventures that don't immediately show a profit. Microsoft just does it on a scale proportionate to their size.
The great thing about Bungie games is that neither the multiplayer (when present) nor single-player campaign is skimped on. The single-player campaign is not just a tutorial for multiplayer, and the multiplayer mode is not just throwing everyone into some random maze with weapons strewn around.
Bungie has been keeping Halo 2's single-player campaign almost totally secret; the first single-player screenshots are only just starting to appear in media, and virtually none of the plot has been made public. I can't wait for either mode. Now I have to go buy a Live kit...
1) Maybe 20% or less. 2) Maybe 10%, but growing, as this is now my primary source of new music. 3) Zero. 4) 70%. 5) 1 or 2 tracks.
Bungie still exists. If you had paid any attention to the community instead of being blinded by rabid anti-MS zealotry you'd know that.
It would cost a vast amount to add an RFID tag to every single sign that a car might potentially pass (i.e. every sign in the US), and continue to cost extra while the government is required to post both a sign and an RFID chip.
I guess this guy is rich and famous now.
Isn't gaming the courts like this illegal?
Church was only a single effect, but he was onscreen a LOT. There have also been color filters, distortions, the split-screen trick mentioned elsewhere, and more. I haven't watched the season 2 DVD with commentary yet, so I'm not sure about Halo PC.