Sigeru Miyamoto is arguably the most influential game desginer alive today. He's responsible for the Mario and Zelda franchises and is renowned for his quality. Try miyamotoshrine.com for more info.
Do you want plot and depth? Look in a book. If you want fun, innovative gameplay, try a game! Games should be judged on their gameplay first, and on their ambience second - and you have to look at the whole picture to see the game's true value.
As for your assertion that no good games have been developed in the last ten years, I advise you to consider the output of Shigeru Miyamoto. The man continues to create fun, engaging games. For example, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is widely considered to be one of the best games produced.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or what, but when Nintendo releases precisely the games I'd like to play, I'm happy. Sure, I'd like to play Halo and GT3, but, on the whole, I'm extremely happy with Nintendo. Mario, Zelda, Metroid - what else do you need?
This thing can move around easily and efficiently - fine. But how are we supposed to make it go where we want to go? On Mars, with its sandstorms, etc, control would probably be vital. OTOH, these could be deployed en masse and just keep beaming data back - durable, mobile, sensors.
The US military is probably not going to let mission critical equipment be accesible so easily. You'd need commandos to insert the code, and while you're there, you may as well blow the stuff up.
It's so expensive! The article estimates that the robot is only cost effective for huge projects (>5.5million pages). This technology is not going to make an impact until it becomes cheaper.
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I believe that Slashdot is the only place where you can hear serious talk about international terrorism and antimatter bombs in the same post.
And we'll finally find a good use for the (offline version) Slashdot effect.
That I've heard this argument without reference to the RIAA/MPAA.
Sigeru Miyamoto is arguably the most influential game desginer alive today. He's responsible for the Mario and Zelda franchises and is renowned for his quality. Try miyamotoshrine.com for more info.
Do you want plot and depth? Look in a book. If you want fun, innovative gameplay, try a game! Games should be judged on their gameplay first, and on their ambience second - and you have to look at the whole picture to see the game's true value.
As for your assertion that no good games have been developed in the last ten years, I advise you to consider the output of Shigeru Miyamoto. The man continues to create fun, engaging games. For example, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is widely considered to be one of the best games produced.
STD and ISD are long distance in India. Still, pay phones are popular.
Yeah, that helps in the Wal-Mart checkout line.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or what, but when Nintendo releases precisely the games I'd like to play, I'm happy. Sure, I'd like to play Halo and GT3, but, on the whole, I'm extremely happy with Nintendo. Mario, Zelda, Metroid - what else do you need?
This is the sort of attitude that led to SQL Slammer et al.
You know you're on slashdot when a post begins
Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold
Part Three: Testing Windows
and ends
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1. They test it??? lololololol!
2. M$ sucks. Use Linux - it's tested by millions worldwide.
3. Teh QA is bribed!
Did I miss any other particularly obvious comments?
Only the most deluded Linux fanatics think MS is going the way of the dodo.
1. Quality doesn't always determine purchases. (Ex: Consoles - IMO, Nintendo has the best games around)
2. MS produces decent software - not amazing, but pretty good. They make great UIs, and that's what helps the average user.
3. MS is powerful. They'll bully and bribe their way to domination, as they have done in the past.
4. Finally, MS hires passionate people (well, I know they did a few years ago). These people are not going to stand still.
This thing can move around easily and efficiently - fine. But how are we supposed to make it go where we want to go? On Mars, with its sandstorms, etc, control would probably be vital. OTOH, these could be deployed en masse and just keep beaming data back - durable, mobile, sensors.
They're eliminating some of their main selling points, aren't they?
You've got the letter p in your sig - it's still blocked!
The US military is probably not going to let mission critical equipment be accesible so easily. You'd need commandos to insert the code, and while you're there, you may as well blow the stuff up.
Wouldn't biological production techniques (with scalable, repeated simple unit, error correctable systems) be really cost effective?
I think he was thinking of something like the Tempered Master Sword from LTTP.
It's so expensive! The article estimates that the robot is only cost effective for huge projects (>5.5million pages). This technology is not going to make an impact until it becomes cheaper.
...not innovation. I know it's important, but it's not as exciting. Perhaps this attitude is why software is so buggy?
Remember, it took an astroid to kill the dinosaurs.
Hmm, so the Greeks, Euler, Descartes, and thousands of other mathematicians don't count? Math is one of the oldest fields I can think of.
No repeating pattern. From there, I'd say it depends on your definition of pattern. Your pattern only occurs in base 10.
Hate? Because the scientists are trying as hard as they can? It's not magic, you know.
Well, then the question is merely one of semantics. A pattern has to show up more than once, I'd say.