What, you thought investigative agents hang around 24 hours a day? No, they value sleep
Don't you have shift work in America? We have a system where one set of people go home, and another comes in to replace them. It's very useful for Fire departments, hospitals and security departments. In fact anywhere that needs to be manned 24 hours a day.
Console games have licensing costs. To release a PS2/Xbox/GC game, you have to pay Sony/MS/Nintendo a fee That's how they make their money (or at least how MS makes less of a loss).
PC games have no licensing costs and so should always be a bit cheaper.
In Europe (and probably other places, I don't know) we switch the date and month in our numberic dates. Ie in the UK today's 01/04/2004 whereas in the US it's 04/01/2004.
No. In _America_ they switch the date and month in their numberic dates. We go the sensible route and put the elements in order.
It does naturally lead one to hope that any future conflicts between Bangladesh and Pakistan (or more probably Pakistan and India) could be fought out using this game rather than guns, tanks and missiles.
I can't wait until all FPS's have randomised appearances for the enemies so that they all look slightly different. They are going to be so much better when rather than a flood of identical enemies, they all have an individual look (maybe even slightly different AI and therefore 'personality').
A side effect might be that it felt a little more like they were real and you could start feeling a little guilty for killing them.
The Neuros Audio Player supports Ogg, has a 20Gb hard disk, Linux version of its software and is only $200. You couldn't really ask for more, but if you did want to ask for more they also have a very active community forum and listen to your suggestions and stuff.
You are right that the 'brand names' don't support these formats very well. This is why you should probably look past the brand names and check out the little guys...
From the title of your post, I take it you're against free speech?
Games are not considered sacred examples of free speech in the same way that books are. This was the topic of the post that I replied to (hence it's title).
Over here in England, it would be almost impossible to ban a book except on grounds of libel. A game or film could be fairly easily banned on many grounds, including decency.
Even the most offensive books don't get banned. Offensive films do, but it's getting less commmon.
The pushing of the boundries on all these things, as with almost everything else, is sex and porn.
Also, just because the perception of the age of gamers is increasing, doesn't mean that people will change their perception of gaming. "Look at all those adults performing a childish activity".
I'd have thought that the people who like Doom, like it because it was, once upon a time, quite an exciting FPS. It's not as if it has a rich universe with plenty of backstory to make use of.
I think we may be lucky enough to get to a position where games are also considered examples of free speech, but I don't think it will happen until it is seen as an adult medium.
You will know when gaming is an adult medium when porn games start appearing.
PCs already have a few of these, but then PC gaming is always considered more adult than console gaming.
I'm guessing the console big 3 are all refusing to license any porn games for their consoles, which is very short sighted of them. If they want to be taken seriously they need to allow a couple to come out and see what happens.
Incidently, I reckon MS will be the first to allow a few to get through.
Personally, I'd love to see a London version of GTA3 like they did with the original GTA.
They could probably buy the 3d map of London of the people who did The Getaway. Didn't they spend something 3 years creating a map of London and then wasted it on a terrible game?
I'm looking forward to an edition 10 years down the line when they enhance the special effects. Some of those scenes where they use the midget actors are really terrible.
It'd be cool if they could fix those bits using digital effects at some point.
It is: Musicbrainz uses these psycho-acoustical properties to identify a song and then retags the file automatically for you using track names taken from a database that is updated by ultra-obsessive music geeks (such as myself).
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Don't you have shift work in America? We have a system where one set of people go home, and another comes in to replace them. It's very useful for Fire departments, hospitals and security departments. In fact anywhere that needs to be manned 24 hours a day.
Criminals don't knock off at 5pm.
Post-modernism IS the ironic phase.
Slashdot has entered post-post-modernism, or retro-modernism which is a return to modernist values without the arch self-referential overtones.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to run MAME on it. Playing the original Aliens v Predator on a train... That'll be cool.
They sure do, especially in Tetris. Those interlocking blocks really get me going...
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo wouldn't let out a game that contained sex because it would be too contraversial in America and would damage sales.
If a Mom came home and found a kid playing a game that featured a sex scene, there'd be uproar.
You do tend to get it on the PC, particulartly in RPGs. Baldurs Gate 2 had a couple of sex scenes, as did Arcanum.
The point is that all of it is allowed. They just wanted a 16 certificate instead of an 18 certificate.
And it's not at all uncommon for games to have a European release with MORE violence in it, because Americans are so conservative.
Europe is (as always) more liberal than America in these respects. It's just (as always) Germany ruining it for the rest of us.
Console games have licensing costs. To release a PS2/Xbox/GC game, you have to pay Sony/MS/Nintendo a fee That's how they make their money (or at least how MS makes less of a loss).
PC games have no licensing costs and so should always be a bit cheaper.
I do apologise. You also know what football is, which makes you infinitely superior to them IMO.
and here in the UK we don't 'speak' dates at all; we say them.
Personally I don't consider your comments on language to have the slightest degree of validity.
If you read his post, he says that YYYYMMDD and DDMMYYYY are both sensible, then you call him provincial and agree with him.
Oh well.
No. In _America_ they switch the date and month in their numberic dates. We go the sensible route and put the elements in order.
Why would you worry about those?
What options are there for multi-platform multi-media presentations other than Macromedia?
Is there any open source solution?
I particularly enjoyed it, and it made me wonder why I've always hated Excel. maybe it's time to forgive...
(I always used to like Pipdream on the Archimedes though. That was a combined spreadsheet and word processor).
It does naturally lead one to hope that any future conflicts between Bangladesh and Pakistan (or more probably Pakistan and India) could be fought out using this game rather than guns, tanks and missiles.
What a genius idea!
I can't wait until all FPS's have randomised appearances for the enemies so that they all look slightly different. They are going to be so much better when rather than a flood of identical enemies, they all have an individual look (maybe even slightly different AI and therefore 'personality').
A side effect might be that it felt a little more like they were real and you could start feeling a little guilty for killing them.
You are right that the 'brand names' don't support these formats very well. This is why you should probably look past the brand names and check out the little guys...
It might be a good game, but in that case it would be a good game whether it were Doom or SuperKillKill...
I'm saying there doesn't appear to be any point in making a Doom game. Why not create something new?
From the title of your post, I take it you're against free speech?
Games are not considered sacred examples of free speech in the same way that books are. This was the topic of the post that I replied to (hence it's title).
Over here in England, it would be almost impossible to ban a book except on grounds of libel. A game or film could be fairly easily banned on many grounds, including decency.
Even the most offensive books don't get banned. Offensive films do, but it's getting less commmon.
The pushing of the boundries on all these things, as with almost everything else, is sex and porn.
Also, just because the perception of the age of gamers is increasing, doesn't mean that people will change their perception of gaming. "Look at all those adults performing a childish activity".
I'd have thought that the people who like Doom, like it because it was, once upon a time, quite an exciting FPS. It's not as if it has a rich universe with plenty of backstory to make use of.
I think we may be lucky enough to get to a position where games are also considered examples of free speech, but I don't think it will happen until it is seen as an adult medium.
You will know when gaming is an adult medium when porn games start appearing.
PCs already have a few of these, but then PC gaming is always considered more adult than console gaming.
I'm guessing the console big 3 are all refusing to license any porn games for their consoles, which is very short sighted of them. If they want to be taken seriously they need to allow a couple to come out and see what happens.
Incidently, I reckon MS will be the first to allow a few to get through.
Personally, I'd love to see a London version of GTA3 like they did with the original GTA.
They could probably buy the 3d map of London of the people who did The Getaway. Didn't they spend something 3 years creating a map of London and then wasted it on a terrible game?
I'm looking forward to an edition 10 years down the line when they enhance the special effects. Some of those scenes where they use the midget actors are really terrible.
It'd be cool if they could fix those bits using digital effects at some point.
It is: Musicbrainz uses these psycho-acoustical properties to identify a song and then retags the file automatically for you using track names taken from a database that is updated by ultra-obsessive music geeks (such as myself).