Thanks for clearing that up - I was almost ready to switch to linux there. I agree that MS have provided some fantastic tools for development, currently I am developing with VS Express, it's very very good.
No it's not a win-win-win. You forget about the actual hardcore gamer, who could not buy one of these consoles because when he went down to the store there were 100 people, with no interest in gaming but a lot of free time on their hands, already in the queue.
Basically these hardcore guys (the actual intended audience for the launch) are being denied access to a console early, due to rich people who can afford to buy a console at a heavy premium on the internet.
Just another example of the normal guy in the street getting screwed over.
All of us agree, you don't win a war by making nice-nice with the enemy, you do it by killing the enemy.
Well it's obvious that your grandfather, father, brother-in-law and brother (anyone else?) know nothing about modern warfare. Things have changed since the days of Patton, maybe you should too.
Initially winning the war? I don't see any war that has been won yet. If you meant his strategy for invading a country, then I would also dispute the "damn good" part, since USA had ovewhelming force on their side and any muppet could have led a march to baghdad, virtually unopposed, as he did.
Why do you say there is no reason to fear an attack? Past actions demonstrate that people are very likely planning future attacks. I don't think anyone lies awake at night dreading the thought of dying in a 9/11 type attack, and maybe neither an anthrax or nuke attack, but what about ways of killing us that we haven't conceived yet? Few people imagined the method of the 9/11 attacks.
So what we have are people intent on causing mass destruction and death, who have got away with it before and are very likely to try again. The actual method is neither here nor there, but that idea would certainly cause me some worry, and if I lived in a place like NYC I could conceivably rate it above the flu as a likely cause of death.
and I write buggy software. I am by no means a MS basher, but the security advisory that they have put out reads like an endless stream of lame excuses.
It may very well be that stupid users or badly configured systems allow these exploits to thrive but FFS Microsoft just admit that you are actually at least partially to blame.
As long as they fail to realise that they are not gods and do actually write buggy software, what hope is there that they will ever succeed in producing something secure?
Lol don't tell me you're defending a "10 best of" article. The guy who wrote this probably never played farcry, so in actual fact it's "10 best of" in the short list of games he has played.
I agree with you and I think the article misses the mark in this regard. Sure anthrax has killed zero people this year, but that doesn't mean that we should logically conclude that it is a lower threat to us then flu, since people are not using past historical data to make their assesment, but rather possible future events. If the possibility of an anthrax attack in future is deemed high, then the possibility of dying from anthrax poisioning could conceivably be higher than flu. Whether the possibility of such an attack is high or not is the question.
Same goes for 9/11. From this event people predict possible future (larger) catastrophic attacks. 9/11 didn't make people scared of dying in a plane crash, it made people scared of dying in a nuclear attack or something far more henious.
Yep, as I recall NOLF had a bunch of pretty good levels - and what about Farcry? At the time the levels in Farcry were kinda revolutionary for their HUGENESS and the amazing outdoor realism.
I remember when the Q3 demo first came out, everyone in the office where I worked (who had been playing Q2 deathmatch for quite a while) were just absolutely amazed at the coolness of q3dm17.
The number of hours we spent playing that level was incrediable:) And then when Q3 was eventually released the space levels just seemed kinda passe and nobody really played them much.
I could twist that around and say why should I care whose fault it is?
Maybe Mozilla should wake up to the fact that the only reason many people continue to use their browser is becuase of these extensions. Maybe they should be liasing closer with extension developers and even paying them to upgrade their products.
...it will ensure these diamonds either never get manufactured, or if they are manufactured never hit the marketplace with the name "diamond". The DeBeers monopoly is too dear and too powerful for disruption like this.
Rubbish, De Beers is hardly a monopoly any longer. Both Canadian and Australian diamond mines don't sell their diamonds to De Beers - and Canada is something like the 3rd largest diamond producer in the world, after Botswana and Russia.
I seriously doubt De Beers (a South African company BTW) employs any more heavy handed tactics than many U.S companies. Sure they bribe the Russians to keep them loyal - but you're naive if you don't think bribery in all it's forms is not used by many large U.S companies as a business strategy.
I don't think this is true, do you have a specific example? AFAIR all the games that I have downloaded have had patches for downloaded games released by the publishers themselves, not by Direct2Drive. For example Ubisoft will release a retail and a download version of their patches, at the same time.
And, in any case, for single player games patching is not a huge issue. Steam does a good job for patching online games, which need frequent updates.
I can't understand why releasing a game on Steam is news. These games have been available for online purchase and download from other sites for ages. Direct2Drive.com for example (my favourite) has many top games for sale and their prices go down pretty quickly after release. And you get to download an actual setup file which you can backup to a dvd.
Doesn't stop people from trying to use Scouting to score political points, but we try to ignore those people.
Yet according to you, the BS organistation is homophobic (homosexuality doesn't imply pedophilia) and anti-atheism/agnostic (even if the rule isn't enforced, it's in the books, why is that?).
So you are affirming exactly the same wrongs that "those people" claim.
Are you kidding me? None of those situations required the use of a gun.
1)You think a burgular is going to stay and fight when suprised? You could have just shouted out and he would have bolted. Cmon you must be smarter than that. 2)Why would you open the door and intentionally put yourself in a dangerous situation?? That is a dumb thing to do. You should be smarter than that. 3)You're in a car and you're scared of a drunk on the street? Geez, why not just, uhm, I don't know, drive away?
I grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, which is not exactly a picnic as far as crime goes and neither my family not I ever had a gun in the house. I dunno how we ever made it, perhaps we are just smart.
However I would suggest you never go live there, because you would not survive.
Where do you get your information from? According to Alexa, Digg is 129th most popluar site globally and Netscape is 186th.
And I would think that 90% of Netscape hits are from browser homepage settings or similar. So the netscape.com site is therefore irrelevant because the browser could just as easily be set to have a homepage of abc.com.
Discussion about what preceded the universe is, by definition, a discussion about things that cannot, even in principle, be observationally confirmed or refuted.
Not now anyway, but who knows in the future?
Isn't what you're saying just like Newton saying that God put the universe in motion, because he could not comprehend the Big Bang? Now we know how the universe was put in motion, so why should we think that what came before the universe is outside the domain of our scientific understanding?
You theory is not falsifiable and therefore is not scientific.
Any argument that I could come up with (evolution/the problem of evil/etc..) can be countered with the standard reply: "that's the way god meant it to be/designed it/etc..".
this is not really for tracking your children, that's just the cover story. More likely be used for tracking spouses - without their knowledge, of course.
Actually the number one argument for switching from Vb6 to vb.Net has nothing to do with technical issues.
If you want to be able to hire competent staff in the future you have to make the move. Especially true if you want competent and enthusiastic staff. Programmers just don't like mucking about with old, outdated languages - especially since you as a programmer need to consider your marketability in the future too.
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Thanks for clearing that up - I was almost ready to switch to linux there. I agree that MS have provided some fantastic tools for development, currently I am developing with VS Express, it's very very good.
No it's not a win-win-win. You forget about the actual hardcore gamer, who could not buy one of these consoles because when he went down to the store there were 100 people, with no interest in gaming but a lot of free time on their hands, already in the queue.
Basically these hardcore guys (the actual intended audience for the launch) are being denied access to a console early, due to rich people who can afford to buy a console at a heavy premium on the internet.
Just another example of the normal guy in the street getting screwed over.
All of us agree, you don't win a war by making nice-nice with the enemy, you do it by killing the enemy.
Well it's obvious that your grandfather, father, brother-in-law and brother (anyone else?) know nothing about modern warfare. Things have changed since the days of Patton, maybe you should too.
Initially winning the war? I don't see any war that has been won yet. If you meant his strategy for invading a country, then I would also dispute the "damn good" part, since USA had ovewhelming force on their side and any muppet could have led a march to baghdad, virtually unopposed, as he did.
Why do you say there is no reason to fear an attack? Past actions demonstrate that people are very likely planning future attacks. I don't think anyone lies awake at night dreading the thought of dying in a 9/11 type attack, and maybe neither an anthrax or nuke attack, but what about ways of killing us that we haven't conceived yet? Few people imagined the method of the 9/11 attacks.
So what we have are people intent on causing mass destruction and death, who have got away with it before and are very likely to try again. The actual method is neither here nor there, but that idea would certainly cause me some worry, and if I lived in a place like NYC I could conceivably rate it above the flu as a likely cause of death.
and I write buggy software. I am by no means a MS basher, but the security advisory that they have put out reads like an endless stream of lame excuses.
It may very well be that stupid users or badly configured systems allow these exploits to thrive but FFS Microsoft just admit that you are actually at least partially to blame.
As long as they fail to realise that they are not gods and do actually write buggy software, what hope is there that they will ever succeed in producing something secure?
Lol don't tell me you're defending a "10 best of" article. The guy who wrote this probably never played farcry, so in actual fact it's "10 best of" in the short list of games he has played.
I agree with you and I think the article misses the mark in this regard. Sure anthrax has killed zero people this year, but that doesn't mean that we should logically conclude that it is a lower threat to us then flu, since people are not using past historical data to make their assesment, but rather possible future events. If the possibility of an anthrax attack in future is deemed high, then the possibility of dying from anthrax poisioning could conceivably be higher than flu. Whether the possibility of such an attack is high or not is the question.
Same goes for 9/11. From this event people predict possible future (larger) catastrophic attacks. 9/11 didn't make people scared of dying in a plane crash, it made people scared of dying in a nuclear attack or something far more henious.
Yep, as I recall NOLF had a bunch of pretty good levels - and what about Farcry? At the time the levels in Farcry were kinda revolutionary for their HUGENESS and the amazing outdoor realism.
I remember when the Q3 demo first came out, everyone in the office where I worked (who had been playing Q2 deathmatch for quite a while) were just absolutely amazed at the coolness of q3dm17.
:) And then when Q3 was eventually released the space levels just seemed kinda passe and nobody really played them much.
The number of hours we spent playing that level was incrediable
I could twist that around and say why should I care whose fault it is?
Maybe Mozilla should wake up to the fact that the only reason many people continue to use their browser is becuase of these extensions. Maybe they should be liasing closer with extension developers and even paying them to upgrade their products.
Rubbish, De Beers is hardly a monopoly any longer. Both Canadian and Australian diamond mines don't sell their diamonds to De Beers - and Canada is something like the 3rd largest diamond producer in the world, after Botswana and Russia.
I seriously doubt De Beers (a South African company BTW) employs any more heavy handed tactics than many U.S companies. Sure they bribe the Russians to keep them loyal - but you're naive if you don't think bribery in all it's forms is not used by many large U.S companies as a business strategy.
I don't think this is true, do you have a specific example? AFAIR all the games that I have downloaded have had patches for downloaded games released by the publishers themselves, not by Direct2Drive. For example Ubisoft will release a retail and a download version of their patches, at the same time.
And, in any case, for single player games patching is not a huge issue. Steam does a good job for patching online games, which need frequent updates.
I can't understand why releasing a game on Steam is news. These games have been available for online purchase and download from other sites for ages. Direct2Drive.com for example (my favourite) has many top games for sale and their prices go down pretty quickly after release. And you get to download an actual setup file which you can backup to a dvd.
Doesn't stop people from trying to use Scouting to score political points, but we try to ignore those people.
Yet according to you, the BS organistation is homophobic (homosexuality doesn't imply pedophilia) and anti-atheism/agnostic (even if the rule isn't enforced, it's in the books, why is that?).
So you are affirming exactly the same wrongs that "those people" claim.
Yes beware pop psychologists.. so let me way in with my humble opinion :)
I think that fear increases the immersive effect of games, which makes it more interesting, but it's the immersion that makes it interesting.
Fear in games is stress, it's fun for a short time but too much turns into a negative.
Are you kidding me? None of those situations required the use of a gun.
1)You think a burgular is going to stay and fight when suprised? You could have just shouted out and he would have bolted. Cmon you must be smarter than that.
2)Why would you open the door and intentionally put yourself in a dangerous situation?? That is a dumb thing to do. You should be smarter than that.
3)You're in a car and you're scared of a drunk on the street? Geez, why not just, uhm, I don't know, drive away?
I grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, which is not exactly a picnic as far as crime goes and neither my family not I ever had a gun in the house. I dunno how we ever made it, perhaps we are just smart.
However I would suggest you never go live there, because you would not survive.
Where do you get your information from? According to Alexa, Digg is 129th most popluar site globally and Netscape is 186th.
And I would think that 90% of Netscape hits are from browser homepage settings or similar. So the netscape.com site is therefore irrelevant because the browser could just as easily be set to have a homepage of abc.com.
Netscape is pretty much irrelevant as a brand name these days. They should shut it all down and turn netscape.com into a museum of the internet.
Discussion about what preceded the universe is, by definition, a discussion about things that cannot, even in principle, be observationally confirmed or refuted.
Not now anyway, but who knows in the future? Isn't what you're saying just like Newton saying that God put the universe in motion, because he could not comprehend the Big Bang? Now we know how the universe was put in motion, so why should we think that what came before the universe is outside the domain of our scientific understanding?
You theory is not falsifiable and therefore is not scientific.
Any argument that I could come up with (evolution/the problem of evil/etc..) can be countered with the standard reply: "that's the way god meant it to be/designed it/etc..".
Actually I think that the bigger the dick the closer it is to the arsehole. I'm sorry if you have a small dick :)
because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes.
Last time I checked, so are dicks.
this is not really for tracking your children, that's just the cover story. More likely be used for tracking spouses - without their knowledge, of course.
Actually the number one argument for switching from Vb6 to vb.Net has nothing to do with technical issues.
If you want to be able to hire competent staff in the future you have to make the move. Especially true if you want competent and enthusiastic staff. Programmers just don't like mucking about with old, outdated languages - especially since you as a programmer need to consider your marketability in the future too.