Yes, of course. This is why we develop more advanced technologies, such as radio, the television, the internet, and bluetooth. We just want more ads! Thanks a lot.
I wonder if, for some people, disabling their phone/device from being discovered via bluetooth will be a viable option? Maybe they need that enabled for something? Too bad there isn't a "DO NOT RECEIVE ADVERTISEMENTS" setting.
I got in trouble for reading beyond the chapter! I loved reading and simply got caught up in the story. Why he got upset is still beyond me. I guess he couldn't handle someone that didn't follow his orders strictly.:\ I often found myself reading ahead as well. Ehh, I often found myself skipping around in dictionaries looking at random words too (I guess I was always bored with the class I was in).
I think it's VERY ridiculous some of the punishments that happen in schools for simple, piddly, typical kid stuff. The "zero tolerance" policy for one thing. Evil, dangerous, plastic GI Joe guns! All deadly weapons!
I often get the feeling (from the media stories on zero tolerance, and such) that teachers and school administrators don't actually like kids at all.
Oh no, writing to random bits of memory to try to find where video memory started! Seriously, activities like that are fun, and a good way to learn things. He should've congratulated you for having a sense of curiousity and exploration.:P
And Urchlay too. I mean, the brightness, ooh, turning that up might break something oh no. Let's squash everyone's initiative and curiousity, nobody needs those.:P Not following their orders to the letter, I think might deserve a "Oh, I said not to touch anything. But that's okay.", nothing close to "detention perhaps, or losing computer privileges for a week", definitely not suspension for a week. Sheesh. ("Phew, one less kid to teach for a week on these computer things." or what?)
We still keep some CR2032 batteries in the fridge, here.. I have no idea if it helps them or not though.;) I'd be interested to know the real effects... I should go search about it sometime.
I don't like the unlockables that go like... Collect all 120 emblems and you get.. um.. an icon by your save file or something? Get an A rating in every level and you get.. 1 new level to play in! Get all of the shine sprites and you get a new picture when you beat the game!
I want some real return for doing complex or difficult, tedious.. um.. gameplaying. Or at least, the people that actually accomplish such tasks should get some good rewards for it..
I agree on the part about "unlockables" the player has to learn how to use. Those are fun. I also like games that have a lot of items and things to use, many of which can be effective but it depends on the player's style.
One sort of "unlockable" I don't like is something akin to.. say.. locked doors that say "You do not know the password." even if the *player* knows it. Then later in the game your character learns the password and so do you, but you don't actually get to use your knowledge of it, it's just your character has to "learn" it. Or your character suddenly learns their electronic sword has a previously undiscovered laser blaster function that was really there all along. Or something.
No, no.. The phantom console is the one that has the exclusive rights to Duke Nukem Forever. (and a moment of Googling reveals this joke has already been used.)
That is what I heard, it was going to be a game called Dinosaur Planet. That's another thing.. I think if the game had stayed with the direction it looked like it was going in the beginning, with Krystal, it would have been better. I was interested in the character and her motivations and whatnot. But, no, she is not playable for about 98% of the game.:\ Um, for plot reasons.. Then the game kind of turns into a list of tasks to do. I kind of sort of enjoyed it, but it became a very normal thing to anticipate having to do yet another task to.. you know.. get to the next step of saving the world. "Win this race" "Find these 3 gold bars" "Finish this puzzle" "Go to this area after buying this item using money that's pretty trivial to get by" "Finish this other puzzle" "Light up these few torches around the village that the dinosaurs seem to have no idea how to light themselves even though they are their own village torches" and all the time I was hoping Krystal would be playable again because I was getting kind of tired of running around as Fox. Nope, no more playable Krystal. Curiously, I have had a little urge to want to play it again for some reason... I am not sure why.:) As I said, I only rented it. It was an okay game, just far too many tasks which almost all seemed like they were put in just simply to put them in.
Star Fox Adventures (which I rented and beat recently) has some "jumping puzzles" thrown in for.. some reason. (But it is about 3 years old.)
The jumping is automatic, "hold the analog stick in the right direction" at least. One I recall, you have to go across these smallish platforms at some water. Within a time limit. I didn't find it too hard after a couple of tries, but... actually I think it had a lot of cliches. They threw in a couple of racing things for no apparent reason, some "on a rails shooter" things, take exploding barrel from point A along a dangerous path to point B and set it down or chuck it at a cracked wall to break it open.
It all felt kind of cliched, put in for no real purpose, it felt like they were put in just to have them there. At that it is surprising they didn't put in a bullet time sequence..
I read that the AIs will be able to sexually reproduce.:p
And creating a new personality would be extremely simple. Getting it "right" would be something else. You could just randomize all the variables, or do a sort of combination of both parents' personality traits, with a little randomness (so down the line it doesn't all become completely averaged out). At least if it works at all how I'd expect..
I'm pretty skeptical about this thing, really. All they'd be observing is what they've programmed, a bunch of actions for the AI to choose from and some random number generators.. unless they're using some AI programming techniques I've never heard of before. The article doesn't say how it would be different than that.. how (if at all) the AI can adapt into doing its own things. Um. And it confuses me about the language thing. They might have to interpret it? "It's quite possible they will develop a language that we have to interpret,"" Um, they couldn't include a translator into it? Or is that what they meant?
"Perhaps most importantly, however, by pointing to objects and using randomly generated "words", characters should be able to conjure up their very own language and communicate with others inside their world." That's not much of an accomplishment.. It would be easy to define a bunch of objects, or combined sets of objects, and assign a random word/string of letters to them.
Just wait until somebody figures out how to install spyware for it and have advertisements on your keyboard! Woo! well okay just in Windows at least.;) Or wait until some program's license agreement makes you agree to display scrolling animated advertisements on the keys.
Though seriously, this is a quite interesting idea, I could think of many useful functions for it. (Media player status stuff, CPU/memory status, um.. generic secondary display of a sort?)
I'd just want to see an ergonomic version, and more normal placement/size of the enter key. But, I imagine/assume one could probably map one of those extra keys to enter. I see in http://optimus.artlebedev.ru/keyb_001.jpg it goes [;] ['] [\] [ ] ENTER [.] [/] [ ] shift ENTER
I recently bought Thief: Deadly Shadows, and Unreal Tournament 2004, for Windows.. Why? User modifications/maps. Nevermind that I don't have a PS2 or XBox. Even if I did I would still have bought the PC versions. It really adds some replay value (or will, in the case of TDS. I haven't looked for maps in a couple of months.;) ) And.. keyboard/mouse control is nice too. I hope PC games continue, really.. But, it really is a pain to get Windows games and programs working properly in linux, at least in my experience.:\ (Except for companies that are nice enough to provide linux executables. I had Quake 3 work in FreeBSD before.:) 3d accelerated graphics, with sound, even.)
It could also be potentially possible to get illegal images, etc. without even knowing it. Something along the lines of.. img src="illegal.png" width=1 height=1 Or, I bet "fun" things could be done with a java applet, make all kinds of files get downloaded.:\
Hmm.. In this case, if NetRatings only allows one to choose male or female, I guess women would be in the minority according to them. What about the intersexed, the androgynes or genderqueer, undecided, other?;) I don't know of any monkeys or martians that use the internet..
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NOoo! Don't give them ideas! I bet they're already cooking up schemes about that, though...
Yes, of course. This is why we develop more advanced technologies, such as radio, the television, the internet, and bluetooth. We just want more ads! Thanks a lot.
I wonder if, for some people, disabling their phone/device from being discovered via bluetooth will be a viable option? Maybe they need that enabled for something? Too bad there isn't a "DO NOT RECEIVE ADVERTISEMENTS" setting.
I got in trouble for reading beyond the chapter! I loved reading and simply got caught up in the story. Why he got upset is still beyond me. :\
I guess he couldn't handle someone that didn't follow his orders strictly.
I often found myself reading ahead as well.
Ehh, I often found myself skipping around in dictionaries looking at random words too (I guess I was always bored with the class I was in).
I think it's VERY ridiculous some of the punishments that happen in schools for simple, piddly, typical kid stuff. The "zero tolerance" policy for one thing. Evil, dangerous, plastic GI Joe guns! All deadly weapons!
I often get the feeling (from the media stories on zero tolerance, and such) that teachers and school administrators don't actually like kids at all.
Oh no, writing to random bits of memory to try to find where video memory started! :P
:P
Seriously, activities like that are fun, and a good way to learn things. He should've congratulated you for having a sense of curiousity and exploration.
And Urchlay too.
I mean, the brightness, ooh, turning that up might break something oh no. Let's squash everyone's initiative and curiousity, nobody needs those.
Not following their orders to the letter, I think might deserve a "Oh, I said not to touch anything. But that's okay.", nothing close to "detention perhaps, or losing computer privileges for a week", definitely not suspension for a week. Sheesh. ("Phew, one less kid to teach for a week on these computer things." or what?)
I also would like some broadband here in rural New Mexico. Arrgh.
We still keep some CR2032 batteries in the fridge, here.. I have no idea if it helps them or not though. ;)
I'd be interested to know the real effects... I should go search about it sometime.
I don't like the unlockables that go like...
.. um.. gameplaying. Or at least, the people that actually accomplish such tasks should get some good rewards for it..
Collect all 120 emblems and you get.. um.. an icon by your save file or something?
Get an A rating in every level and you get.. 1 new level to play in!
Get all of the shine sprites and you get a new picture when you beat the game!
I want some real return for doing complex or difficult, tedious
I agree on the part about "unlockables" the player has to learn how to use. Those are fun.
I also like games that have a lot of items and things to use, many of which can be effective but it depends on the player's style.
One sort of "unlockable" I don't like is something akin to.. say.. locked doors that say "You do not know the password." even if the *player* knows it. Then later in the game your character learns the password and so do you, but you don't actually get to use your knowledge of it, it's just your character has to "learn" it.
Or your character suddenly learns their electronic sword has a previously undiscovered laser blaster function that was really there all along. Or something.
No, no.. The phantom console is the one that has the exclusive rights to Duke Nukem Forever.
(and a moment of Googling reveals this joke has already been used.)
Why? Do you prefer the release versions of Windows to be vulnerable instead? ;>
That is what I heard, it was going to be a game called Dinosaur Planet. :\ Um, for plot reasons.. :) As I said, I only rented it.
That's another thing.. I think if the game had stayed with the direction it looked like it was going in the beginning, with Krystal, it would have been better.
I was interested in the character and her motivations and whatnot. But, no, she is not playable for about 98% of the game.
Then the game kind of turns into a list of tasks to do.
I kind of sort of enjoyed it, but it became a very normal thing to anticipate having to do yet another task to.. you know.. get to the next step of saving the world. "Win this race" "Find these 3 gold bars" "Finish this puzzle" "Go to this area after buying this item using money that's pretty trivial to get by" "Finish this other puzzle" "Light up these few torches around the village that the dinosaurs seem to have no idea how to light themselves even though they are their own village torches" and all the time I was hoping Krystal would be playable again because I was getting kind of tired of running around as Fox. Nope, no more playable Krystal.
Curiously, I have had a little urge to want to play it again for some reason... I am not sure why.
It was an okay game, just far too many tasks which almost all seemed like they were put in just simply to put them in.
Star Fox Adventures (which I rented and beat recently) has some "jumping puzzles" thrown in for .. some reason. (But it is about 3 years old.)
The jumping is automatic, "hold the analog stick in the right direction" at least.
One I recall, you have to go across these smallish platforms at some water. Within a time limit.
I didn't find it too hard after a couple of tries, but... actually I think it had a lot of cliches.
They threw in a couple of racing things for no apparent reason, some "on a rails shooter" things, take exploding barrel from point A along a dangerous path to point B and set it down or chuck it at a cracked wall to break it open.
It all felt kind of cliched, put in for no real purpose, it felt like they were put in just to have them there. At that it is surprising they didn't put in a bullet time sequence..
I'd really like Metroid Prime 3 as well, but.. I'm not buying a whole new system for it.. :\
On a touchpad perhaps, but I find on a mouse it's easy to press the correct buttons.
(I'm a Windows/Linux user.)
I'm guessing it would also apply to a full computer bought all at once. Such as the kinds that are always in Dell, Gateway, etc. commercials.
But my father and I, we always buy the parts separately from store websites as well.
By that logic Neverwinter Nights (plus expansion(s).. or just the platinum edition..) is free. No monthly fees. :b
I read that the AIs will be able to sexually reproduce. :p
And creating a new personality would be extremely simple. Getting it "right" would be something else.
You could just randomize all the variables, or do a sort of combination of both parents' personality traits, with a little randomness (so down the line it doesn't all become completely averaged out).
At least if it works at all how I'd expect..
I'm pretty skeptical about this thing, really. All they'd be observing is what they've programmed, a bunch of actions for the AI to choose from and some random number generators.. unless they're using some AI programming techniques I've never heard of before.
The article doesn't say how it would be different than that.. how (if at all) the AI can adapt into doing its own things.
Um.
And it confuses me about the language thing. They might have to interpret it? "It's quite possible they will develop a language that we have to interpret,"" Um, they couldn't include a translator into it? Or is that what they meant?
"Perhaps most importantly, however, by pointing to objects and using randomly generated "words", characters should be able to conjure up their very own language and communicate with others inside their world."
That's not much of an accomplishment.. It would be easy to define a bunch of objects, or combined sets of objects, and assign a random word/string of letters to them.
Just wait until somebody figures out how to install spyware for it and have advertisements on your keyboard! Woo! ;)
well okay just in Windows at least.
Or wait until some program's license agreement makes you agree to display scrolling animated advertisements on the keys.
Though seriously, this is a quite interesting idea, I could think of many useful functions for it.
(Media player status stuff, CPU/memory status, um.. generic secondary display of a sort?)
I'd just want to see an ergonomic version, and more normal placement/size of the enter key.
But, I imagine/assume one could probably map one of those extra keys to enter.
I see in http://optimus.artlebedev.ru/keyb_001.jpg it goes
[;] ['] [\] [ ] ENTER
[.] [/] [ ] shift ENTER
Both The Rock and Karl Urban were fans of the original Doom game before signing on to play the roles of space marines Sarge and John, respectively.
I take it that's the Sarge from Quake 3. Neat. I'm interested to see what the character's like in this movie.
I recently bought Thief: Deadly Shadows, and Unreal Tournament 2004, for Windows.. ;) ) :\ :) 3d accelerated graphics, with sound, even.)
Why? User modifications/maps. Nevermind that I don't have a PS2 or XBox. Even if I did I would still have bought the PC versions.
It really adds some replay value (or will, in the case of TDS. I haven't looked for maps in a couple of months.
And.. keyboard/mouse control is nice too.
I hope PC games continue, really.. But, it really is a pain to get Windows games and programs working properly in linux, at least in my experience.
(Except for companies that are nice enough to provide linux executables. I had Quake 3 work in FreeBSD before.
It could also be potentially possible to get illegal images, etc. without even knowing it. .. img src="illegal.png" width=1 height=1 :\
Something along the lines of
Or, I bet "fun" things could be done with a java applet, make all kinds of files get downloaded.
What, how dare you speak to Spaceball Emperor Junta that way!
Some news. :)
I could (generally) care less what a console looks like, as long as it's fun to play.
Well, "Details on the PS3" would be newsish at least. Though there is still a lot of hype about things.
Ah, this talk reminds me of kkrieger: takes up 96k diskspace but requires 512MB ram, a 1.5GHz processor, etc.. :D (requires DirectX 9.0b)
.. physical disc size.
"lower quality" is a silly 'argument' for
"Troll"? Looks more like a "Funny" to me. ^^ :)
;>
As for myself, sort of redundant. It would be nice if this were the last decade of online advertising.
My real thoughts, though, were:
"Overall an interesting read if you're into that sort of thing."?
Nobody is into online advertising.
Hmm.. In this case, if NetRatings only allows one to choose male or female, I guess women would be in the minority according to them. ;)
What about the intersexed, the androgynes or genderqueer, undecided, other?
I don't know of any monkeys or martians that use the internet..